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title = "The {MERLIN} corpus: Learner language and the {CEFR}",
author = {Boyd, Adriane and
Hana, Jirka and
Nicolas, Lionel and
Meurers, Detmar and
Wisniewski, Katrin and
Abel, Andrea and
Sch{\"o}ne, Karin and
{\v{S}}tindlov{\'a}, Barbora and
Vettori, Chiara},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/606_Paper.pdf",
pages = "1281--1288",
abstract = "The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German,and Italian that has been designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with authentic learner data. The corpus contains 2,290 learner texts produced in standardized language certifications covering CEFR levels A1-C1. The MERLIN annotation scheme includes a wide range of language characteristics that enable research into the empirical foundations of the CEFR scales and provide language teachers, test developers, and Second Language Acquisition researchers with concrete examples of learner performance and progress across multiple proficiency levels. For computational linguistics, it provide a range of authentic learner data for three target languages, supporting a broadening of the scope of research in areas such as automatic proficiency classification or native language identification. The annotated corpus and related information will be freely available as a corpus resource and through a freely accessible, didactically-oriented online platform.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR
%A Boyd, Adriane
%A Hana, Jirka
%A Nicolas, Lionel
%A Meurers, Detmar
%A Wisniewski, Katrin
%A Abel, Andrea
%A Schöne, Karin
%A Štindlová, Barbora
%A Vettori, Chiara
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14)
%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
%F boyd-etal-2014-merlin
%X The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German,and Italian that has been designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with authentic learner data. The corpus contains 2,290 learner texts produced in standardized language certifications covering CEFR levels A1-C1. The MERLIN annotation scheme includes a wide range of language characteristics that enable research into the empirical foundations of the CEFR scales and provide language teachers, test developers, and Second Language Acquisition researchers with concrete examples of learner performance and progress across multiple proficiency levels. For computational linguistics, it provide a range of authentic learner data for three target languages, supporting a broadening of the scope of research in areas such as automatic proficiency classification or native language identification. The annotated corpus and related information will be freely available as a corpus resource and through a freely accessible, didactically-oriented online platform.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/606_Paper.pdf
%P 1281-1288
Markdown (Informal)
[The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/606_Paper.pdf) (Boyd et al., LREC 2014)
ACL
- Adriane Boyd, Jirka Hana, Lionel Nicolas, Detmar Meurers, Katrin Wisniewski, Andrea Abel, Karin Schöne, Barbora Štindlová, and Chiara Vettori. 2014. The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1281–1288, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).