EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign Language (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | EFLLex describes the use of 15,280 English words in pedagogical materials across proficiency levels. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a part-of-speech tagger and a robust estimator to compute frequency and do manual post-editing work to improve the resource. |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource describes the use of 15,280 English words across proficiency levels of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. |
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