Buchbeitrag
Creating an extensible, levelled study corpus of Russian
In this paper, we present first results of training a classifier for discriminating Russian texts into different levels of difficulty. For the classification we considered both surface-oriented features adopted from readability assessments and more linguistically informed, positional features to classify texts into two levels of difficulty. This text classification is the main focus of our Levelled Study Corpus of Russian (LeStCoR), in which we aim to build a corpus adapted for language learning purposes – selecting simpler texts for beginner second language learners and more complex texts for advanced learners. The most discriminative feature in our pilot study was a lexical feature that approximates accessibility of the vocabulary by the second language learner in terms of the proportion of familiar words in the texts. The best feature setting achieved an accuracy of 0.91 on a pilot corpus of 209 texts.
- Language
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Englisch
- Subject
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Russisch
Korpus <Linguistik>
Sprache
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Batinić, Dolores
Birzer, Sandra
Zinsmeister, Heike
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- (when)
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2017-02-27
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-59235
- Last update
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06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET
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Object type
- Buchbeitrag
Associated
- Batinić, Dolores
- Birzer, Sandra
- Zinsmeister, Heike
- Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Time of origin
- 2017-02-27
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