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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We are glad
to inform you that a new English learner corpus called the
International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) has
been completed and made publicly available. The ICCI consists of
9,000 essays (20 min. in-class tasks without the use of a
dictionary) written by novice to lower-intermediate level
learners of English , sampled from eight countries and regions
(Austria, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Poland, Spain, and
Taiwan). </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Our web query
system is available at the following URL:</span><br>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tonolab.tufs.ac.jp/icci/index.jsp">http://tonolab.tufs.ac.jp/icci/index.jsp</a></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You can also
download the entire corpus data and the metadata file once you<br>
agree to the license conditions and register. <br>
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We hope you will find the resources useful.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We will also
provide the introductory workshop (instructors: Huaqing Hong at
NTU, Singapore and me) at TaLC10 in Warsaw as a part of the
pre-conference workshop sessions on the 11th of July. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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<br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Best regards,<br>
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Yukio<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color:
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yukio Tono</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Professor in
Corpus Linguistics<br>
Graduate School of Global Studies<br>
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies<br>
JAPAN<br>
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:y.tono@tufs.ac.jp">y.tono@tufs.ac.jp</a> (work);
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:yukio.tono@gmail.com">yukio.tono@gmail.com</a>
(personal)<br>
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