Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use

Corpus linguistics meets language technology:

To the extent that NLP is used by QA systems, it is mostly limited to tokenization, named entity recognition, stemming, POS tagging, and shallow parsing. More sophisticated NLP such as (deep) syntactic parsing is hardly ever used. In the present paper I investigate why this should be the case and try to establish how deep syntactic parsing as developed in the field of corpus linguistics might c...

Corpus linguistics - investigating language structure and use

On the Annotation and Use of Learner Language Corpora

Corpus linguistics and language acquisition

Learner Corpora and Natural Language Processing

Learner corpora collect the language produced by people learning their first or a second language. Natural Language Processing (NLP) deals with the representation and the automatic analysis and generation of human language. The two thus overlap in the representation and automatic analysis of learner language, which constitutes the topic of this chapter. As such, the chapter focuses on one of th...