Detmar Meurers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Detmar Meurers plays a role.

Articles

While traditionally linguistic complexity analysis of learner language is mostly based on essays, there is increasing interest in other task types. This is crucial for obtaining a broader empirical basis for characterizing language proficiency and highlights the need to advance our understanding… read more
Alexopoulou, Theodora, Jeroen Geertzen, Anna Korhonen and Detmar Meurers 2015 Exploring big educational learner corpora for SLA research: Perspectives on relative clausesInternational Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1, pp. 96–129 | Article
We consider the opportunities presented by big educational learner corpora for Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In particular, we focus on the EF Cambridge Open Language Database (EFCAMDAT), an open access database of student writings submitted to Englishtown, the online school of EF Education… read more
Readability assessment can play a role in the evaluation of a simplification algorithm as well as in the identification of what to simplify. While some previous research used traditional readability formulas to evaluate text simplification, there is little research into the utility of readability… read more
Ott, Niels, Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers 2012 Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus: Towards evaluating meaning in contextMultilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 47–69 | Article
We discuss the collection and analysis of a cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpus consisting of answers to reading comprehension questions written by adult second language learners of German. We motivate the need for such task-based learner corpora and identify the properties which make… read more