Detmar Meurers
List of John Benjamins publications in which Detmar Meurers is involved.
2021 Analyzing the linguistic complexity of German learner language in a reading comprehension task: Using proficiency classification to investigate short answer data, cross-data generalizability, and the impact of linguistic analysis quality Natural language processing for learner corpus research, Kyle, Kristopher (ed.), pp. 83–130 | Article
While traditionally linguistic complexity analysis of learner language is mostly based on essays, there is increasing interest in other task types. This is crucial for obtaining a broader empirical basis for characterizing language proficiency and highlights the need to advance our understanding… read more
2015 Exploring big educational learner corpora for SLA research: Perspectives on relative clauses International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1, pp. 96–129 | Article
We consider the opportunities presented by big educational learner corpora for Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In particular, we focus on the EF Cambridge Open Language Database (EFCAMDAT), an open access database of student writings submitted to Englishtown, the online school of EF Education… read more
2014 Readability assessment for text simplification: From analysing documents to identifying sentential simplifications Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification, François, Thomas and Delphine Bernhard (eds.), pp. 194–222 | Article
Readability assessment can play a role in the evaluation of a simplification algorithm as well as in the identification of what to simplify. While some previous research used traditional readability formulas to evaluate text simplification, there is little research into the utility of readability… read more
2012 Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus: Towards evaluating meaning in context Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 47–69 | Article
We discuss the collection and analysis of a cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpus consisting of answers to reading comprehension questions written by adult second language learners of German. We motivate the need for such task-based learner corpora and identify the properties which make… read more