Name
Tswana Learner English Corpus
Developer(s)
Bertus van Rooy
Affiliation(s)
North-West University
Description
Argumentative student essays in English, written by native speakers of
Setswana.
Category(ies)
Argumentative essays
Language(s)
English
Stratum
n/a
Distribution
Directly from developer until release by ICLE late 2006/early 2007.
Website
of
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/research%20learner%20corpora.html#icle
ICLE:
Articles:
Van Rooy, Bertus & Schäfer, Lande. 2002. The effect of learner errors
on POS tag errors during automatic POS tagging. Southern African
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 20(4):325-335.
Van Rooy, Bertus. 2005. The localisation of English resources:
spelling checking for South African students. In Daelemans, Walter, Du
Plessis, Theo, Snyman, Cobus & Teck, Lut. (Eds.) Multilingualism and
Electronic Language Management. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
Van Rooy, Bertus. 2006. The extension of the progressive aspect in
Black South African English. World Englishes, 25(1): 37-64.
Documentation
Data format:
Running text
Size: Linguistic
tokens
(running
words)
token/type ratio (standardised to 300): 49.41
Size: File
1146840bytes
Annotation
Raw and spelling corrected versions available
Manual
Checking
1.
Typing
checked
by
independent
2. Separate version with spelling errors corrected.
File Format
Text
Legal Info
Signed permission
Pricing:
Academic
Free
Pricing:
Multiple Users
Pricing:
Commercial
n/a
Licence
Contact Person Bertus van Rooy: Bertus.vanRooy@nwu.ac.za
Other
Information
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in
text:
201,283
assistants.