The Hebrew Essay Corpus

Chen Gafni; Anat Prior; Shuly Wintner

The Hebrew Essay Corpus

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Abstract

We present the Hebrew Essay Corpus: an annotated corpus of Hebrew language argumentative essays authored by prospective higher-education students. The corpus includes both essays by native speakers, written as part of the psychometric exam that is used to assess their future success in academic studies; and essays authored by non-native speakers, with three different native languages, that were written as part of a language aptitude test. The corpus is uniformly encoded and stored. The nonnative essays were annotated with target hypotheses whose main goal is to make the texts amenable to automatic processing (morphological and syntactic analysis). The corpus is available for academic purposes upon request. We describe the corpus and the error correction and annotation schemes used in its analysis. In addition to introducing this new resource, we discuss the challenges of identifying and analyzing non-native language use in general, and propose various ways for dealing with these challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	5580-5586
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546726
State	Published - 2022
Event	13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, France Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 25 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name	2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	20/06/22 → 25/06/22

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Keywords

Hebrew
Learner corpora
non-native language

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Library and Information Sciences
Linguistics and Language
Education

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Gafni, C., Prior, A., & Wintner, S. (2022). The Hebrew Essay Corpus. In N. Calzolari, F. Bechet, P. Blache, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp. 5580-5586). (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Gafni, Chen ; Prior, Anat ; Wintner, Shuly. / The Hebrew Essay Corpus. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Frederic Bechet ; Philippe Blache ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. pp. 5580-5586 (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

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Gafni, C, Prior, A & Wintner, S 2022, The Hebrew Essay Corpus. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 5580-5586, 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 20/06/22.

The Hebrew Essay Corpus. / Gafni, Chen; Prior, Anat ; Wintner, Shuly.
2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Frederic Bechet; Philippe Blache; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2022. p. 5580-5586 (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

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Gafni C, Prior A , Wintner S. The Hebrew Essay Corpus. In Calzolari N, Bechet F, Blache P, Choukri K, Cieri C, Declerck T, Goggi S, Isahara H, Maegaard B, Mariani J, Mazo H, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2022. p. 5580-5586. (2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022).

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