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author = "Ruppenhofer, Josef and
Portmann, Annette and
Schwendemann, Matthias and
Renker, Christine and
Wisniewski, Katrin and
Zesch, Torsten",
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
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abstract = "The annotation of learner language is an often ambiguous and challenging task. It is therefore surprising that in Second Language Acquisition research, information on annotation quality is hardly ever published. This is also true for verb placement, a linguistic feature that has re- ceived much attention within SLA. This paper presents an annotation on verb placement in German learner texts at different proficiency levels. We argue that as part of the annotation process target hypotheses should be provided as ancillary annotations that make explicit each annotator{'}s interpretation of a learner sentence. Our study demonstrates that verb placement can be annotated with high agreement between multiple annotators, for texts at all proficiency levels and across sentences of varying complex- ity. We release our corpus with annotations by four annotators on more than 600 finite clauses sampled across 5 CEFR levels."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language
%A Ruppenhofer, Josef
%A Portmann, Annette
%A Schwendemann, Matthias
%A Renker, Christine
%A Wisniewski, Katrin
%A Zesch, Torsten
%Y Peng, Siyao
%Y Rehbein, Ines
%S Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
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%F ruppenhofer-etal-2025-annotating
%X The annotation of learner language is an often ambiguous and challenging task. It is therefore surprising that in Second Language Acquisition research, information on annotation quality is hardly ever published. This is also true for verb placement, a linguistic feature that has re- ceived much attention within SLA. This paper presents an annotation on verb placement in German learner texts at different proficiency levels. We argue that as part of the annotation process target hypotheses should be provided as ancillary annotations that make explicit each annotator’s interpretation of a learner sentence. Our study demonstrates that verb placement can be annotated with high agreement between multiple annotators, for texts at all proficiency levels and across sentences of varying complex- ity. We release our corpus with annotations by four annotators on more than 600 finite clauses sampled across 5 CEFR levels.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.15
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.15/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.15
%P 187-200
Markdown (Informal)
[Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language](https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.15/) (Ruppenhofer et al., LAW 2025)
ACL
- Josef Ruppenhofer, Annette Portmann, Matthias Schwendemann, Christine Renker, Katrin Wisniewski, and Torsten Zesch. 2025. Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 187–200, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.