Linguistic accuracy poses one of the greatest challenges for English as Second Language
(ESL) writers. There remains, however, a paucity of diagnostic tools designed to detect and …

This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of
multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about …

Writing is an important element of language learning, and an increasing amount of learner
writing is taking place in online environments. Teachers can provide valuable feedback by …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the main concepts relating to corpus annotation,
along with some discussion of the practical aspects of creating annotated texts and working …

While there is increasing interest in automatically recognizing the argumentative structure of
a text, recognizing the argumentative purpose of revisions to such texts has been less …

We present graphANNIS, a fast implementation of the established query language AQL for
dealing with deeply annotated linguistic corpora. AQL builds on a graphbased abstraction …

We present an annotation scheme and a dataset of teacher feedback provided for texts
written by non-native speakers of English. The dataset consists of student-written sentences …

This chapter deals with how written learner corpora can be used–and have been used–to
inform teaching and, in particular, English language teaching (ELT). Learner corpora are …

This study uncovers the development and structure of the research on English as a second
or foreign language in post-Soviet countries. In total, 500 publications from the Web of …

Corpus architecture refers to the set of design decisions taken in the conceptual division and
interrelations of types of objects contained in a corpus, such as texts, annotations and …