Jörg Thomaschewski


2016

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A Language Resource of German Errors Written by Children with Dyslexia
Maria Rauschenberger | Luz Rello | Silke Füchsel | Jörg Thomaschewski
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

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.