Papers by Inga Kaija
LaVA – Latvian Language Learner corpus (2022.lrec-1)
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| 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. |
Quality Focused Approach to a Learner Corpus Development (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for annotating learner corpus with errors are not well defined and can be repetitive. |
| Approach: | The paper proposes a quality focused approach to a learner corpus development . the approach includes comparison of digitized texts, text correction, automated morphological analysis and manual review of annotations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is used to create a learner corpus in Latvian . it reduces the amount of mistakes that could be introduced due to inconsistent correction or carelessness. |