Abstract
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) defines six levels of learner proficiency, and links them to particular communicative abilities. The CEFRLex project aims at compiling lexical resources that link single words and multi-word expressions to particular CEFR levels. The resources are thought to reflect second language learner needs as they are compiled from CEFR-graded textbooks and other learner-directed texts. In this work, we investigate the applicability of CEFRLex resources for building language learning applications. Our main concerns were that vocabulary in language learning materials might be sparse, i.e. that not all vocabulary items that belong to a particular level would also occur in materials for that level, and, on the other hand, that vocabulary items might be used on lower-level materials if required by the topic (e.g. with a simpler paraphrasing or translation). Our results indicate that the English CEFRLex resource is in accordance with external resources that we jointly employ as gold standard. Together with other values obtained from monolingual and parallel corpora, we can indicate which entries need to be adjusted to obtain values that are even more in line with this gold standard. We expect that this finding also holds for the other languages- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.43
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 346–355
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.43
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Johannes Graën, David Alfter, and Gerold Schneider. 2020. Using Multilingual Resources to Evaluate CEFRLex for Learner Applications. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 346–355, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Using Multilingual Resources to Evaluate CEFRLex for Learner Applications (Graën et al., LREC 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2020.lrec-1.43.pdf