A language resource of German errors written by children with dyslexia

Rauschenberger, Maria; Rello, Luz, 1984-; Füchsel, Silke; Thomaschewski, Jörg

A language resource of German errors written by children with dyslexia

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Rauschenberger M, Rello L, Füchsel S, Thomaschewski J. A language resource of German errors written by children with dyslexia. In: LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation; 2016 May 23-28; Portoroz, Slovenia. [place unknown]: ELRA; 2016. p.83-7.

Abstract

In this paper we present a language resource for German, composed of a list of 1,021 unique errors extracted from a collection of texts written by people with dyslexia. The errors were annotated with a set of linguistic characteristics as well as visual and phonetic features. We present the compilation and the annotation criteria for the different types of dyslexic errors. This language resource has many potential uses since errors written by people with dyslexia reflect their difficulties. For instance, it has already been used to design language exercises to treat dyslexia in German. To the best of our knowledge, this is first resource of this kind in German.

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Comunicació presentada a la LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, celebrada del 23 al 28 de maig de 2016 a Portorož, Eslovènia.