MERLIN project documentation

Tests tasks and data preparation

Complete test tasks including a task description are available for download in the section MERLIN corpus.

MERLIN rating grid: Czech | German | Italian

Technical report: Report on the reliability and scale functionality of the MERLIN written speech sample ratings, by O. Bärenfänger

Annotation scheme and annotation process

Annotation manual (annotation structure and guidelines)

MERLIN annotation scheme

Selected publications by the MERLIN team

Wisniewski, K. (2020). SLA developmental stages in the CEFR-related learner corpus MERLIN: Inversion and verb-end structures in German A2 and B1 learner texts. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 6(1), 1–17.

Weiss, Z. & Meurers, D. (2019). Broad Linguistic Modeling is Beneficial for German L2 Proficiency Assessment. Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2017, 419–435. https://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?gcoi=2930310079806

Weber, T. (2018). Grammatik und Lernerkorpora: Eine korpusorientierte Untersuchung von Präpositionalphrasen im deutschen MERLIN-Korpus. In Fuß, E. et al. (dir.), Grammar and Corpora 2016 (p. 415–424). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.361.c4714

Boyd, A. (2018). Using Wikipedia edits in low resource grammatical error correction. Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text. Brussels, 79–84.

Lyding, V. & Schöne, K. (2016). Design and Development of the MERLIN Learner Corpus Platform. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), 2471 – 2477.

Štindlová, B. & Čurdova V. (2015). MERLIN: Multilingvální platforma pro evropské referenční úrovně. Časopis pro moderní filologii, dvojčíslo u příležitosti 20. výročí ČNK. (2), 190-200.

Abel, A., Wisniewski, K., Nicolas, L.; Boyd, A., Hana, J. & Meurers, D. (2014). A Trilingual Learner Corpus illustrating European Reference Levels. Ricognizioni – Rivista di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne, 2(1), 111-126.

Wisniewski, K. (2014). Die Validität der Skalen des Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen: Eine empirische Untersuchung der Flüssigkeits- und Wortschatzskalen des GeRS am Beispiel des Italienischen und des Deutschen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang

Boyd, A., Hana, J., Nicolas, L., Meurers, D., Wisniewski, K., Abel, A., Schöne, K., Štindlová, B. & Vettori, C. (2014). The MERLIN corpus: Learner Language and the CEFR . Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Reykjavik, May 26-31, 2014.

Wisniewski, K., Schöne, K., Nicolas, L., Vettori, C., Boyd, A., Meurers, D., Abel, A. & Hana, J. (2013). MERLIN: An online trilingual learner corpus empirically grounding the European Reference Levels in authentic learner data. ICT for Language Learning 2013, Conference Proceedings, Florence, Italy, November 14-15, 2013.