Corpora: Longman Learners' Corpus

[Crowdy, Steve]

Hi -
Sorry you haven't been able to get through to us! The Longman Learners
Corpus is available for academic research, and currently around 10 million
words can be supplied. Alternatively, we are happy to supply subsets by
language level or student language. Until the problem with our website is
resolved please send all corpus and dictionary licensing requests direct to
me. All Longman Dictionary titles are available for research purposes, and
most are stored in XML or SGML.
Thanks,

Steve Crowdy
Longman Dictionaries
steve.crowdy at pearsoned-ema.com
http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/research/dictres.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael R. Klieman [mailto:klieman at ling.ucsd.edu]
Sent: 23 February 2001 01:42
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: Corpora: Longman Learners' Corpus


Hello all,

I have two questions:

There is a corpus of English as a second language learners' essays called
the Longman Learners' Corpus.  Hiroyuki Oshita used it in his dissertation
and some subsequent papers (1997, 1998, 2000) to analyze the acquisition of
unaccusatives by ESL students.   I am replicating his work, and would like
to get a hold of the LLC, but have not been able to find it
anywhere.  Longman (a dictionary company) has reference to it on their
website, but won't respond to my emails.  Does anyone know anything about
the LLC, and how to get access to it?

Second question:   Does anyone know of a similar corpus of ESL learners'
English, either spoken or written?

Thank you all for your time,

Michael Klieman
Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
klieman at ling.ucsd.edu




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