| Challenge: | a corpus of 1015 essays from foreigners learning Latvian as a foreign language is available at http://www.korpuss.lv/id/LaVA. |
| Approach: | They propose to create a Latvian Language Learner Corpus (LaVA) which contains 1015 essays from Latvian students with different language backgrounds. |
| Outcome: | The LaVA corpus contains 1015 essays from foreigners studying at Latvian higher education institutions and reaching the A1 (possibly A2) Latvian language proficiency level. |
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