NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet

Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Cédrick Fairon


Abstract
In this paper, we introduce NT2Lex, a novel lexical resource for Dutch as a foreign language (NT2) which includes frequency distributions of 17,743 words and expressions attested in expert-written textbook texts and readers graded along the scale of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). In essence, the lexicon informs us about what kind of vocabulary should be understood when reading Dutch as a non-native reader at a particular proficiency level. The main novelty of the resource with respect to the previously developed CEFR-graded lexicons concerns the introduction of corpus-based evidence for L2 word sense complexity through the linkage to Open Dutch WordNet (Postma et al., 2016). The resource thus contains, on top of the lemmatised and part-of-speech tagged lexical entries, a total of 11,999 unique word senses and 8,934 distinct synsets.
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W18-0514
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Joel Tetreault, Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Helen Yannakoudakis
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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137–146
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-0514
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-0514
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Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, and Cédrick Fairon. 2018. NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 137–146, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet (Tack et al., BEA 2018)
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