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| Title | FLELex: a graded Lexical Resource for French Foreign Learners |
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| Authors | Thomas Francois, Nùria Gala, Patrick Watrin and Cédrick Fairon |
| Abstract | In this paper we present FLELex, the first graded lexicon for French as a foreign language (FFL) that reports word frequencies by difficulty level (according to the CEFR scale). It has been obtained from a tagged corpus of 777,000 words from available textbooks and simplified readers intended for FFL learners. Our goal is to freely provide this resource to the community to be used for a variety of purposes going from the assessment of the lexical difficulty of a text, to the selection of simpler words within text simplification systems, and also as a dictionary in assistive tools for writing. |
| Topics | Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Acquisition |
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FLELex: a graded Lexical Resource for French Foreign Learners |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{FRANCOIS14.1108, author = {Thomas Francois and Nùria Gala and Patrick Watrin and Cédrick Fairon}, title = {FLELex: a graded Lexical Resource for French Foreign Learners}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |