Diagnosing Word Order Errors
Adriane Boyd, Detmar Meurers · 2009
•Word order errors are frequently not local and depend on complex linguistic notions: ◦Grammatical function (e.g., English) ◦ Topological field (e.g., German) Data •We compiled a learner corpus for ◦Development of a word order error typology ◦ Evaluation of error diagnosis approaches • Corpus of written data from introductory-level German courses at The Ohio State University: ◦ Typed responses to online workbook activities (~90,000 words in 20,000 responses; 4,000 unique responses) ◦Hand-written essays from final exams (~9,000 words in 90 essays)