Integrating learner corpora and natural language processing: A crucial step towards reconciling technological sophistication and pedagogical effectiveness

ReCALL

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 252-268

  Granger, Sylviane ^a   Kraif, Olivier ^b   Ponton, Claude ^b   Antoniadis, Georges ^b   Zampa, Virginie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

error detection; error tagging; French; Learner corpora; NLP; web interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249152872     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344007000237     Document Type: Article

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