31.1625, FYI: International Corpus of Learner English Version 3

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Subject: 31.1625, FYI: International Corpus of Learner English Version 3

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Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 11:02:10
From: Sylviane Granger [sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be]
Subject: International Corpus of Learner English Version 3

 
We are pleased to announce the release of the 

International Corpus of Learner English Version 3
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
in collaboration with
Centre de traitement automatique du langage

The International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) is a corpus of essay
writing by upper intermediate and advanced learners. Founded and coordinated
by Sylviane Granger at the University of Louvain, the corpus is the results of
almost 30 years of collaborative activity between a large number of
universities internationally. Since the release of the first and second
editions in 2002 and 2009 respectively, the corpus has been used in a wide
range of research projects internationally, served as the basis for many MA
and PhD theses and generally played a key role in promoting the field of
learner corpus research.  

The first version of the corpus contained 2.5 million words produced by
learners from 11 mother tongue backgrounds. The second version was larger in
terms of both words (3.7 million) and language backgrounds (16). The current
version differs from the previous ones in two major ways. Firstly, it is even
larger than the previous versions, as it includes data from 25 mother tongue
backgrounds, amounting to 5.7 million words. In addition, unlike the preceding
versions – which were both distributed on CD-ROMs – ICLEv3 is hosted on a
brand new web-based interface. This allows not only for easier and more
flexible access but also for the regular inclusion of new subcorpora as they
are completed, thereby highlighting the fundamentally dynamic nature of the
ICLE project. Based on the abundant feedback that we have received over the
years from scholars using the corpus, the functionalities that were already
available in the previous versions of the ICLE have been enhanced
significantly. The enhancement of the concordance tool and the corpus download
facilities, for instance, is intended to answer the growing concern for the
study of internal variability and individual differences in learner data.

For more information on the corpus, visit  the ICLEv3 trial interface:
https://corpora.uclouvain.be/cecl/icle/trial 

Sylviane Granger, Maïté Dupont, Fanny Meunier, Hubert Naets, Magali Paquot
University of Louvain
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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