Nicolas Ballier

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicolas Ballier plays a role.

Title

Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data

Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 59] 2013. vi, 314 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language teaching | Multilingualism

Articles

Ballier, Nicolas, Stéphane Canu, Caroline Petitjean, Gilles Gasso, Carlos Balhana, Theodora Alexopoulou and Thomas Gaillat 2020 Machine learning for learner English: A plea for creating learner data challenges International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:1, pp. 72–103 | Article

This paper discusses machine learning techniques for the prediction of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels in a learner corpus. We summarise the CAp 2018 Machine Learning (ML) competition, a classification task of the six CEFR levels, which map linguistic competence in a foreign… read more

Ballier, Nicolas and Philippe Martin 2013 Developing corpus interoperability for phonetic investigation of learner corpora Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data, Díaz-Negrillo, Ana, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson (eds.), pp. 33–64 | Article

Although automatic analysis and computer-aided annotation tools are being developed, spoken learner corpora are still smaller and less numerous than written learner corpora. This chapter gives a critical overview of some of the phonetic research questions addressed by spoken learner corpora in… read more

Ballier, Nicolas, Ana Díaz-Negrillo and Paul Thompson 2013 Introduction Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data, Díaz-Negrillo, Ana, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson (eds.), pp. 3–8 | Article