CLARIN – Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora: objectives and current (collaborative) initiatives
(2023) CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 — Location: KULeuven, Belgium (18.October.2023)
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- The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora offers expert knowledge on the collection and use of learner corpora (i.e. electronic collections of language data produced by second or foreign language learners) for theoretical and applied purposes. Sharing of expertise can take various forms, from answering (theoretical, methodological, technical) questions sent via the helpdesk to sharing resources and providing training services. The K-centre builds on more than 30 years of expertise in learner corpus research (from corpus design to corpus analysis) at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL). Among other things, CECL members launched the Learner Corpus Bibliography and also maintain the Learner Corpora around the World webpage. They are the founding members of the Learner Corpus Association and also launched the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. They have published extensively on learner corpus research. Major CECL publications include The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research (edited by S. Granger, G. Gilquin, & F. Meunier, 2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora (N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot, 2021). The centre has expertise in learner corpus design (metadata, transcription, ethics), annotation (POS tagging, parsing, error annotation), and analysis. Current projects of the CKL2CORPORA members include the development of a Core Metadata Schema for Learner Corpora (Paquot et al., 2023) and the development of FABRA (Wilkens et al., 2022), a tool that was originally developed for readability research but can also be used to compute a wide range of measures of linguistic complexity for French. At the Bazaar, we would like to showcase the Core Metadata Schema for Learner Corpora, which is the result of extensive collaboration between learner corpus compilers at the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora and EURAC Research (Bolzano, Italy), and a research data infrastructure expert and member of CLARIN's metadata taskforce.
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Paquot, M. (2023). CLARIN – Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora: objectives and current (collaborative) initiatives. CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, KULeuven, Belgium. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100023