This paper introduces EFLLex, an innovative lexical resource that describes the use of 15,280 English words in pedagogical materials across the proficiency levels of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. The methodology adopted to produce the resource implies the selection of an efficient part-of-speech tagger, the use of a robust estimator for frequency computation and some manual post-editing work. The content of the resource is described and compared to other vocabulary lists (MRC and BNC) and to a reference pedagogical resource: the English Vocabulary Profile.
@InProceedings{DÜRLICH18.439, author = {Luise Dürlich and Thomas Francois}, title = "{EFLLex: A Graded Lexical Resource for Learners of English as a Foreign Language}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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