@inproceedings{das-etal-2025-icle,
    title = "{ICLE}-{RC}: International Corpus of Learner {E}nglish for Relative Clauses",
    author = "Das, Debopam  and
      Czerniak, Izabela  and
      Bourgonje, Peter",
    editor = "Peng, Siyao  and
      Rehbein, Ines",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.law-1.16/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.16",
    pages = "201--215",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-262-6",
    abstract = "We present the ICLE-RC, a corpus of learner English texts annotated for relative clauses and related phenomena. The corpus contains a collection of 144 academic essays from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE; Granger et al., 2002), representing six L1 backgrounds {--} Finnish, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, and Urdu. These texts are annotated for over 900 relative clauses, with respect to a wide array of lexical, syntactic, semantic, and discourse features. The corpus also provides annotation of over 400 related phenomena (it-clefts, pseudo-clefts, existential-relatives, etc.). Here, we describe the corpus annotation framework, report on the IAA study, discuss the prospects of (semi-)automating annotation, and present the first results from our corpus analysis. We envisage the ICLE-RC to be used as a valuable resource for research on relative clauses in SLA, language typology, World Englishes, and discourse analysis."
}