Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language
Ruppenhofer J, Portmann A, Renker C, Schwendemann M, Wisniewski K, Zesch T (2025)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2025
Pages Range: 187-200
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
Event location: Wien
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.15
Abstract
The annotation of learner language is an often ambiguous and challenging task. It is therefore surprising that in Second Language Acquisition research, information on annotation quality is hardly ever published. This is also true for verb placement, a linguistic feature that has re- ceived much attention within SLA. This paper presents an annotation on verb placement in German learner texts at different proficiency levels. We argue that as part of the annotation process target hypotheses should be provided as ancillary annotations that make explicit each annotator’s interpretation of a learner sentence. Our study demonstrates that verb placement can be annotated with high agreement between multiple annotators, for texts at all proficiency levels and across sentences of varying complex- ity. We release our corpus with annotations by four annotators on more than 600 finite clauses sampled across 5 CEFR levels.
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APA:
Ruppenhofer, J., Portmann, A., Renker, C., Schwendemann, M., Wisniewski, K., & Zesch, T. (2025). Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language. In Siyao Peng, Ines Rehbein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025) (pp. 187-200). Wien, AT.
MLA:
Ruppenhofer, Josef, et al. "Where it’s at: Annotating Verb Placement Types in Learner Language." Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), Wien Ed. Siyao Peng, Ines Rehbein, 2025. 187-200.
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