Corpora: error tagging of learners' English

[Andrew Harley]

At 09:25 PM 16/11/2000 +0800, 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

Not answering your question, but I thought you might be interested to know
that Cambridge University Press have manually tagged 3 million words of
learner examination scripts for different type of errors. See
<http://www.cambridge.org/elt/reference/clc.htm> for some more info. This
error tagging enables us to analyse learner mistakes and is invaluable in
our publishing of English Language Teaching materials, especially
dictionaries. For example, we can quickly find the most common countability
errors ("informations").

Andrew Harley
Systems Development Manager
English Language Teaching & Dictionaries
Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/elt

Direct line: (01223)325880

Cambridge Dictionaries Online (5 million searches since August 1999):
http://dictionary.cambridge.org

Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM:
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/cide