QCAW 1.0: Building a Qatari Corpus of Student Argumentative Writing (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have highlighted the importance of and need to create learner corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose to create a Qatari corpus of argumentative writing (QCAW) the corpus contains 200,000 tokens of argumentation written by Qatari university students . |
| Outcome: | The QCAW contains 195 essays written by 195 students, 159 females and 36 males. |
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