LaVALatvian Language Learner corpus

Roberts Darģis, Ilze Auziņa, Inga Kaija, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Kristīne Pokratniece


Abstract
This paper presents the Latvian Language Learner Corpus (LaVA) developed at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia. LaVA corpus contains 1015 essays (190k tokens and 790k characters excluding whitespaces) from foreigners studying at Latvian higher education institutions and who are learning Latvian as a foreign language in the first or second semester, reaching the A1 (possibly A2) Latvian language proficiency level. The corpus has morphological and error annotations. Error analysis and the statistics of the LaVA corpus are also provided in the paper. The corpus is publicly available at: http://www.korpuss.lv/id/LaVA.
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2022.lrec-1.77
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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727–731
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.77
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Roberts Darģis, Ilze Auziņa, Inga Kaija, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, and Kristīne Pokratniece. 2022. LaVA – Latvian Language Learner corpus. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 727–731, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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LaVA – Latvian Language Learner corpus (Darģis et al., LREC 2022)
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