The development of a Chinese learner corpus

Author

Maolin Wang ; Qi Gong ; Jie Kuang ; Ziyu Xiong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Chinese Language & Culture, Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A learner corpus is a very important resource for research on second language acquisition. In this paper, the design and development of a Chinese learner corpus is described. The corpus is based on compositions by learners from 59 countries. The procedure of the development of the corpus is reported, including coping, proofing, etc. Information such as type of writing, student number, time of writing, Chinese language proficiency level is recorded. The corpus will be helpful in teaching syllabus compilation, textbook development and dictionary compilation, etc.

Keywords

linguistics; natural language processing; Chinese language proficiency level; Chinese learner corpus; coping procedure; corpus development; dictionary compilation; proofing procedure; second language acquisition; student number information; syllabus compilation; textbook development; writing time information; writing type information; Dictionaries; Educational institutions; Materials; Pragmatics; Standards; Chinese; Corpus; language acquisition; language teaching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech Database and Assessments (Oriental COCOSDA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2811-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2812-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSDA.2012.6422457

Filename

6422457