fsca: French syntactic complexity analyzer
(2021) International Journal of Learner Corpus Research — Vol. 7, n° 2, p. 259-274 (2021)
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- This article reports on an open-source R package for the extraction of syntactic units from dependency-parsed French texts. To evaluate the reliability of the package, syntactic units were extracted from a corpus of L2 French and were compared to units extracted manually from the same corpus. The f-score of the extracted units ranged from 0.53-0.97. Although units were not always identical between the two methods, manual and automatically- derived syntactic complexity measures were strongly and significantly correlated (ρ = 0.62- 0.97, p < 0.001), suggesting that this package may be a suitable replacement for manual annotation in some cases where manual annotation is not possible but that care should be used in interpreting the measures based on these units.
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Vandeweerd, N. (2021). fsca: French syntactic complexity analyzer. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 7(2), 259-274. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/268914 (Original work published 2021)