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Newsletter #12

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• Bootstrapping Translation Detection and Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora 

Kriste Krstovski and David Smith

• Chatbot Technology with Synthetic Voices in the Acquisition of an Endangered Language: Motivation, Development and Evaluation of a Platform for Irish

Neasa Ní Chiaráin and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

• CItA: an L1 Italian Learners Corpus to Study the Development of Writing Competence

Alessia Barbagli, Pietro Lucisano, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, and Giulia Venturi

• Compilation of an Arabic Children’s Corpus

Latifa Al-Sulaiti, Noorhan Abbas, Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell, and Ayman Alghamdi

• French Learners Audio Corpus of German Speech (FLACGS)

Jane Wottawa and Martine Adda-Decker

• Improving POS Tagging of German Learner Language in a Reading Comprehension Scenario

Lena Keiper, Andrea Horbach, and Stefan Thater

• Palabras: Crowdsourcing Transcriptions of L2 Speech

Eric Sanders, Pepi Burgos, Catia Cucchiarini, and Roeland van Hout

• Parse Tree Fragmentation of Ungrammatical Sentences

Homa B. Hashemi and Rebecca Hwa

• Phrase Structure Annotation and Parsing for Learner English

Ryo Nagata and Keisuke Sakaguchi

• SubCo: A Learner Translation Corpus of Human and Machine Subtitles

José Manuel Martínez Martínez and Mihaela Vela

• SweLL on the rise: Swedish Learner Language corpus for European Reference Level studies

Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Lorena Llozhi, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg, and Monica Sandell

• The COPLE2 corpus: a learner corpus for Portuguese

Amália Mendes, Sandra Antunes, Maarten Janssen, and Annabel Gonçalves

• The Uppsala Corpus of Student Writings: Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Analysis

Beata Megyesi, Jesper Näsman, and Anne Palmér

• Universal Dependencies for Learner English

Yevgeni Berzak, Jessica Kenney, Carolyn Spadine, Jing Xian Wang, Lucia Lam, Keiko Sophie Mori, Sebastian Garza, and Boris Katz

• What a Nerd! Beating Students and Vector Cosine in the ESL and TOEFL Datasets

Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu, and Chu-Ren Huang

 

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Newsletter #11

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• Annotation and Classification of French Feedback Communicative Functions

Laurent Prévot, Jan Gorisch, and Sankar Mukherjee

• Building a Corpus of 2L English for Automatic Assessment: the CLEC Corpus

Ángeles Zarco Tejada, Carmen Noya Gallardo, Carmen Merino Ferradá, and Isabel Calderón López

• Design of a Learner Corpus for Listening and Speaking Performance

Katsunori Kotani and Takehiko Yoshimi

• Methods and Tool for Constructing Phonetically-Balanced Materials for Speech Perception Testing: A Development of Thai Sentence-Length Materials

Adirek Munthuli, Charturong Tantibundhit, Chutamanee Onsuwan, and Krit Kosawat

• Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals – the CloudCAST initiative

Phil Green, Ricard Marxer, Stuart Cunningham, Heidi Christensen, Frank Rudzicz, Maria Yancheva, André Coy, Massimuliano Malavasi, and Lorenzo Desideri

• Speech and language technologies for the automatic monitoring and training of cognitive functions

Anna Pompili, Cristiana Amorim, Alberto Abad, and Isabel Trancoso

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Newsletter #9

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• Annotating Entailment Relations for Shortanswer Questions

Simon Ostermann, Andrea Horbach, and Manfred Pinkal

• Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Dialectal Arabic Speech Transcription

Samantha Wray, Hamdy Mubarak, and Ahmed Ali

• Noise or additional information? Using crowdsource annotation item agreement for natural language tasks

Emily Jamison and Iryna Gurevych

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Newsletter #8

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• Aligning Sentences from Standard Wikipedia to Simple Wikipedia

William Hwang, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, and Wei Wu

• Automatic Spontaneous Speech Grading: A Novel Feature Derivation Technique Using the Crowd

Vinay Shashidhar, Nishant Pandey, and Varun Aggarwal

• Semi-automated typical error annotation for learner English essays: integrating frameworks

Andrey Kutuzov and Elizaveta Kuzmenko

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Newsletter #7

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• A Tagging Editor for Learner Corpora Annotation and Error Analysis

Lung Hao Lee, Kuei Ching Lee, Li Ping Chang, Yuen Hsien Tseng, Liang Chih Yu, and Hsin Hsi Chen

• Annotating article errors in Spanish learner texts: design and evaluation of an annotation scheme

Marıa del Pilar Valverde Ibanez and Akira Ohtani

• CityU Corpus of Essay Drafts of English Language Learners: A Corpus of Textual Revision in Second Language Writing

John Lee, Chak Yan Yeung, Amir Zeldes, Marc Reznicek, Anke Lüdeling, and Jonathan Webster

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Newsletter #6

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• A Corpus of Machine Translation Errors Extracted from Translation Students Exercises

Guillaume Wisniewski, Natalie Kübler, and François Yvon

• A Database of Freely Written Texts of German School Students for the Purpose of Automatic Spelling Error Classification

Kay Berkling, Johanna Fay, Masood Ghayoomi, Katrin Hein, Rémi Lavalley, Ludwig Linhuber, and Sebastian Stüker

• A lexical database for systematic orthographical teaching and training of German orthography

Hrvoje Hlebec, Wilfried Hehr, and Ronny Jauch

• Bottom up specialized phraseology in CLIL teaching classes

Elisa Corino

• Classification of English language learner writing errors using a parallel corpus with SVM

Brendan Flanagan, Chengjiu Yin, Takahiko Suzuki, and Sachio Hirokawa

• Designing a Bilingual Speech Corpus for French and German Language Learners: a Two-Step Process

Camille Fauth, Anne Bonneau, Frank Zimmerer, Jürgen Trouvain, Bistra Andreeva, Vincent Colotte, Dominique Fohr, Denis Jouvet, Jeanin Jügler, Yves Laprie, Odile Mella, and Bernd Möbius 

• Empirical Analysis of Aggregation Methods for Collective Annotation

Ciyang Qing, Ulle Endriss, Raquel Fernandez, and Justin Kruger

• Finding your “inner-annotator”: An experiment in annotator independence for rating discourse coherence quality in essays

Jill Burstein, Swapna Somasundaran, and Martin Chodorow

• FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners

Thomas François, Nùria Gala, Patrick Watrin, and Cédrick Fairon

• Focus Annotation in Reading Comprehension Data

Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers

• KoKo: an L1 Learner Corpus for German

Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Lionel Nicolas, and Egon Stemle

• Language Editing Dataset of Academic Texts

Vidas Daudaravicius

• Large Scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework

Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Ossama Obeid, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya, Noura Farra, Sarah Alkuhlani, and Kemal Oflazer

• The WikEd Error Corpus: A Corpus of Corrective Wikipedia Edits and Its Application to Grammatical Error Correction

Roman Grundkiewicz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

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Newsletter #2

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• A Web-based Annotation Framework For Large-Scale Text Correction

Ossama Obeid, Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Kemal Oflazer, and Nadi Tomeh

• Alignment-based Annotation of Proofreading Texts toward Professional Writing Assistance

Ngan Nguyen and Yusuke Miyao