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SUMMARY:The English Profile Project: upgrading the Cambridge Learner Corpu
 s and future directions for research. - Professor John Hawkins\, Professor
  Ted Briscoe\, Dr Paula Buttery\, Caroline Williams and Oeistein Andersen.
DTSTART:20070123T160000Z
DTEND:20070123T173000Z
UID:TALK6321@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Teresa Parodi
DESCRIPTION:The ultimate goal of the English Profile Project (EPP) is to p
 rovide a set of reference level descriptions for English for all six level
 s of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). In t
 his talk  we define our research goals and summarise ongoing and future wo
 rk. Our  goals are to deliver two products of direct relevance tothe EPP: 
 (i) a  set of "criterial" features that characterize and distinguish the s
 ix  levels of the CEFR with respect to English\; and (ii) an assessment of
  the impact of different first languages (L1s) on performance at each of t
 he  levels and their interaction with the criterial features. The data for
   much of this work come from the Cambridge Learner Corpus\, a 22 million 
  word corpus of written learner data\, of which 11 million words have been
   manually error-coded and corrected. \nWe will present preliminary result
 s illustrating correlations between determiner errors and first languages 
 using the error-coded portion of the CLC. We will describe the part-of-spe
 ech tagging and syntactic parsing of the CLC and of the BNC using the RASP
  system\, and demonstrate how this additional annotation allows us to addr
 ess questions which go beyond specific lexical items and the error codes a
 ssociated with them. In this context\, we will report preliminary work on 
 determiner-noun agreement errors and on verb subcategorisation  and select
 ional disparities from native speaker performance. Future work is outlined
 \, including work on lexical choice errors and on the use of the CLC (and 
 the BNC) to detect grammatical errors automatically. 
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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