In national educational standards, linguistic complexity is one of the core aspects
characterizing the demands of reading material and student writing quality. In Germany …

In this paper, we present the CItA corpus (Corpus Italiano di Apprendenti L1), a collection of
essays written by Italian L1 learners collected during the first and second year of lower …

This paper describes the process of anonymizing a German, publicly available children's
corpus of digitized and scanned in spontaneously written texts from Grades 1-8. After …

This paper evaluates an automatic spelling error tagger that is available via web interface.
After explaining the existing error tags in detail, the accuracy of the tool is validated against a …

To date, corpus and computational linguistic work on written language acquisition has
mostly dealt with second language learners who have usually already mastered …

This paper evaluates an automatic spelling error tagger and classifier for German texts. After
explaining the existing error tags in detail, the accuracy of the tool is validated against a …

We present a project aimed at studying the evolution of students' writing skills in a temporal
span of 15 years (from 2001 to 2016), analysing in particular the impact of neo-standard …

Progression in der Lehre bewegt sich schrittweise vom Einfachen zum Komplexen. Die
Komplexität einer Orthographie lässt sich anhand des Entropie-Maßes bidirektional …

Compared to early language development, later changes to the language system during
orthography and literacy acquisition have not yet been researched in detail. We present a …

NLP applications for learners often rely on annotated learner corpora. Thereby, it is
important that the annotations are both meaningful for the task, and consistent and reliable …