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<div dir="ltr">Dear Corpora-List Members, <p>I would like to thank all who have sent me individual e-mails with suggestions, including indication on where to find corpora for languages other than English and the Romance languages.<br> <br>In reply to Ramesh,<br> <br>I would say that they all contain sentences with grammatical errors. I am interested in corpora where all sentences have errors on particular aspects of the grammar (prepositions, verb tenses, negation, coordination, etc., etc., etc.) with some pre-selection and pre-categorization of the ungrammaticality of the sentences. In the past, system developers used what was called "test suites", mostly fabricated by linguists for the specific purpose of testing a particular system. I am interested in sentences that come from "real" usage of language by non-native speakers, but also native speakers with writing difficulties or writing texts where language and style is not optimized or could be improved. When supporting editing of a text, existing grammar checkers are not sophisticated enough to identify all the grammar problems and often identify as a problem perfectly correct sentences (false positives and false negatives). In addition to correction, there is also the potential for providing better solutions for writing (including more categories to the typology)... For example, I can fix support verb constructions with "weak" verbs into semantically "strong" verbs, which gives the text a more professional style, eliminates words that are unecessary, helps texts being translated more efficiently by humans and machines, etc.<BR> <BR><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">From my request on this list, I found out that there is an ongoing shared task concerned with the automated correction of errors in text by Robert Dale and Adam Kilgarriff : </span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/" target="_blank"><font color="#0068cf">http://clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/</font></a></span><br><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><br>This is a especially interesting task because it groups errors into linguistic categories. Hoo already includes preposition and determiner errors in exam scripts authored by learners of English as a Second Language, but their goal is to enlarge the typology of linguistic errors. That's all I wished for :)<br> <br>Thank you all,<br> <br>Anabela<br></span><BR><div><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif; font-style: italic;"></span></font><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif; font-style: italic;"></span></font><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><font color="#00b050" size="1" face="Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><i><strong>Think GREEN - Act GREEN!</strong></i></font><font size="1" face="Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><i><br></i></font><font size="1" face="Tahoma,Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><i><br></i></font><font color="black">Anabela M. Barreiro</font><a href="mailto:barreiro_anabela@hotmail.com"></a><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 4pt;"><br></span></font><font color="black">Personal webpage: </font><a href="https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/Anabela_Barreiro" target="_blank"><font color="#0068cf">https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/Anabela_Barreiro</font></a></div><div><font color="black">LinkedIn: </font><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/219/A43" target="_blank"><font color="#0068cf">http://www.linkedin.com/in/anabelabarreiro<br></font></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14pt;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></span></div><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk<br>To: barreiro_anabela@hotmail.com<br>CC: corpora@uib.no<br>Subject: corpora of grammatical errors<br>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:42:20 +0000<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Hi Anabela</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">#1 Do ALL the currently available public corpora not ‘contain sentences with grammatical errors’?</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Very few (if any) texts will be 100% grammatically ‘correct’ (whichever model of grammar you use)?</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">So BNC, COCA, etc should be OK for you?</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">But the specific ‘errors’ your system identifies will of course depend on your choice of model.</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">#2 If you want a corpus with a high proportion of ‘errors’, would any available LANGUAGE LEARNER,
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">NON-NATIVE-SPEAKER, NON-STANDARD, or VARIETAL corpus be sufficient for your purposes? These</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">corpora should be easy to find via Google, by specifying one of those attributes?</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Hope this helps</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Ramesh</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Ramesh Krishnamurthy</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET</p>
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Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/" target="_blank">
<span style="color: blue;">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/</span></a> </p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Corpus Analyst:</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">(a) GeWiss (Volkswagen Foundation) project: <a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/" target="_blank">
<span style="color: blue;">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/</span></a></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">(b) Discourse of Climate Change: <a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/" target="_blank">
<span style="color: blue;">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/</span></a></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">(c) Feminism: <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html" target="_blank">
<span style="color: blue;">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html</span></a></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">(d) COMENEGO (Corpus Multilingüe de Economía y Negocios) - Multilingual Corpus of Business and Economics:
<a href="http://dti.ua.es/comenego" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://dti.ua.es/comenego</span></a></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">(e) European Phraseology Project: <a href="http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php" target="_blank">
<span style="color: blue;">http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php</span></a></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:24:50 +0000</p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">From: Anabela Barreiro <<a href="mailto:barreiro_anabela@hotmail.com">barreiro_anabela@hotmail.com</a>></p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">Subject: [Corpora-List] corpora of grammatical errors</p>
<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">To: "<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>" <<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">Dear Corpora List Members,</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">I am looking for public corpora containing sentences with grammatical errors.</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">I plan to use the corpora as input to grammar checking and correction routines.</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoPlainText">The corpora can be in English or romance languages. I appreciate any indication of where I can find those corpora. Thank you!</p>
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