Building a Large Annotated Corpus of Learner English: The NUS Corpus of Learner English

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 22-31

  Dahlmeier, Daniel ^a,b   Ng, Hwee Tou ^b,c   Wu, Siew Mei ^c  

^a SAP Innovation Center Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANNOTATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA RESOURCES; ERRORS CORRECTION; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; LARGE DATA; NO-REFERENCE; RESEARCH PURPOSE;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 85080325972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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