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title = "{ICLE}-{RC}: International Corpus of Learner {E}nglish for Relative Clauses",
author = "Das, Debopam and
Czerniak, Izabela and
Bourgonje, Peter",
editor = "Peng, Siyao and
Rehbein, Ines",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.16/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.16",
pages = "201--215",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-262-6",
abstract = "We present the ICLE-RC, a corpus of learner English texts annotated for relative clauses and related phenomena. The corpus contains a collection of 144 academic essays from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE; Granger et al., 2002), representing six L1 backgrounds {--} Finnish, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, and Urdu. These texts are annotated for over 900 relative clauses, with respect to a wide array of lexical, syntactic, semantic, and discourse features. The corpus also provides annotation of over 400 related phenomena (it-clefts, pseudo-clefts, existential-relatives, etc.). Here, we describe the corpus annotation framework, report on the IAA study, discuss the prospects of (semi-)automating annotation, and present the first results from our corpus analysis. We envisage the ICLE-RC to be used as a valuable resource for research on relative clauses in SLA, language typology, World Englishes, and discourse analysis."
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%Y Rehbein, Ines
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Markdown (Informal)
[ICLE-RC: International Corpus of Learner English for Relative Clauses](https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.16/) (Das et al., LAW 2025)
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