@inproceedings{laarmann-quante-etal-2019-making,
    title = "The making of the Litkey Corpus, a richly annotated longitudinal corpus of {G}erman texts written by primary school children",
    author = "Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Dipper, Stefanie  and
      Belke, Eva",
    editor = "Friedrich, Annemarie  and
      Zeyrek, Deniz  and
      Hoek, Jet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop",
    month = aug,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/W19-4006/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4006",
    pages = "43--55",
    abstract = "To date, corpus and computational linguistic work on written language acquisition has mostly dealt with second language learners who have usually already mastered orthography acquisition in their first language. In this paper, we present the Litkey Corpus, a richly-annotated longitudinal corpus of written texts produced by primary school children in Germany from grades 2 to 4. The paper focuses on the (semi-)automatic annotation procedure at various linguistic levels, which include POS tags, features of the word-internal structure (phonemes, syllables, morphemes) and key orthographic features of the target words as well as a categorization of spelling errors. Comprehensive evaluations show that high accuracy was achieved on all levels, making the Litkey Corpus a useful resource for corpus-based research on literacy acquisition of German primary school children and for developing NLP tools for educational purposes. The corpus is freely available under \url{https://www.linguistics.rub.de/litkeycorpus/}."
}