Corpora: error tagging of learners' English

[E S Atwell]

Vicki,
you didnt specify what sort of errors and what sort of learner's English;

- if you're looking for spelling and grammar errors in text, Microsoft
Word-2000 is the best I know of, it red-underlines spelling errors,
and faint-underlines "grammatical" errors (ie errors involving more than
one word); it even suggests corrections.

- if you're dealing with spoken English and want software to detect
pronunciation errors (and suggest corrections), try the downloadable ISLE
demo pronunciation tutor,
http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/download.html

Neither system is a "batch-oriented tagger" ie they are not designed for
high-volume Corpus throughput.

Incidentally, the ISLE project also collected the ISLE Spoken database of
non-native English, about 18 hours of learners' speech, annotated with
errors (at word- phone- or stress-level), available as 4 CDs from ELRA,
see http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~isle/speech.html

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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, vicky man wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to know if there are any 'error tagging' softwares that can
> effectively indicate the kinds of errors found in learners' English?
>
> Your suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> all the best, Vicky
>
> *****
> Vicky Man
> Language Center
> Hong Kong Baptist University
> Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
>
>
>