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Corplus: A new concordancer for exploring authentic texts with language corrections

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper introduces a newly developed specialised Corplus concordancer designed to work with corpora containing annotated language corrections. Unlike traditional concordancers, which focus on retrieving linguistic patterns and frequency data from various types of corpora, this tool emphasises the retrieval and comparison of both erroneous and corrected forms within texts. It allows researchers and educators to track, analyse, and compare errors alongside their corrections, providing empirical data that can be applied to first- or second-language acquisition research, as well as applied linguistics, such as the development of language learning materials. The intuitive interface of the Corplus concordancer makes it suitable for classroom use, supporting data-driven learning and other approaches based on authentic language data. The Corplus concordancer has already been implemented to provide access to two Slovene corpora: the developmental corpus Šolar and the learner corpus KOST. The tool is programmed in a way to support a variety of languages and corpus types.

Source: Journal of Responsible Technology

DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100144

Authors: Iztok Kosem, Mojca Stritar Kučuk, Špela Arhar Holdt

Institutions: University of Ljubljana, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School

Language: English

Topic: Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,560