This article discusses two types of opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between
computational linguistics (CL) and language learning research. We target the connection …

The study of second language acquisition (SLA) can benefit from the same process of
datasharing that has proven effective in areas such as first language acquisition and …

Die linguistische Arbeit mit digitalen Textsammlungen hat sich in den letzten Jahren von
einer Methode zu einer eigenen Disziplin der Linguistik entwickelt. Im Zentrum des Buches …

The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German, and Italian that has been
designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages …

This report began life in October 2020 at the start of the Language In The Human-Machine
Era network (lithme. eu). Several online co-writing workshops followed, working together in …

Natural Language Processing (NLP) deals with the representation and the automatic
analysis and generation of human language (Jurafsky & Martin, 2009). Learner corpora …

Learner corpora have generally focused on intermediate and advanced learners/users.
Corpora of beginners are rare but just as important. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) …

In this paper we describe an open learner corpus of Russian. The Russian Learner Corpus
(RLC) is the first corpus with clear distinction between foreign language learners and …

In this paper, we present corpus data that questions the concept of native speaker
homogeneity as it is presumed in many studies using native speakers (L1) as a control …

Automatic content scoring is an important application in the area of automatic educational
assessment. Short texts written by learners are scored based on their content while spelling …