A Language Resource of German Errors Written by Children with Dyslexia

Maria Rauschenberger, Luz Rello, Silke Füchsel, Jörg Thomaschewski


Abstract
In this paper we present a language resource for German, composed of a list of 1,021 unique errors extracted from a collection of texts written by people with dyslexia. The errors were annotated with a set of linguistic characteristics as well as visual and phonetic features. We present the compilation and the annotation criteria for the different types of dyslexic errors. This language resource has many potential uses since errors written by people with dyslexia reflect their difficulties. For instance, it has already been used to design language exercises to treat dyslexia in German. To the best of our knowledge, this is first resource of this kind in German.
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L16-1013
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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83–87
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1013
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Maria Rauschenberger, Luz Rello, Silke Füchsel, and Jörg Thomaschewski. 2016. A Language Resource of German Errors Written by Children with Dyslexia. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 83–87, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Language Resource of German Errors Written by Children with Dyslexia (Rauschenberger et al., LREC 2016)
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