The Kolipsi-1 Corpus is a written learner corpus of German and Italian L2 speakers originating from South Tyrol (Italy). It has been developed as a by-product of the KOLIPSI project “South-Tyrolean pupils and the second language: a linguistic and socio-psychological investigation” (KOLIPSI I). In addition, data from L1 pupils were collected exclusively for the creation of a native speaker reference corpus.
The aim of the project KOLIPSI was to analyse the second language competences of South-Tyrolean pupils and to contextualize the results of such investigation by commenting on crucial sociolinguistic and psychosocial aspects that influence it.
The learner corpus consists of German and Italian L2 productions that have been assigned to the CEFR levels in a reliable way and contain also a variety of metadata such as school type, gender, origin, socioeconomic status and L1 of the learners.
The data collection took place during the school year 2007/2008 and is based on two standardized tests for written productions. The two tasks the students were given consisted in writing an e-mail to a friend on a certain event at the supermarket (narrative text genre) and in writing a letter to a friend on holiday planning (argumentative text genre).
The L1 students had to fulfill the same two tasks. However, no further metadata such as CEFR level were collected.
The corpus contains manually performed transcription annotations. Transcription annotations reflect surface features of the text, such as the graphical arrangement, and include error annotation on the orthographic level. In addition to that, the corpus is automatically annotated, including tokenisation, sentence splitting, POS-tagging and lemmatization.
Corpus Information
| size: | ca. 600,000 tokens |
| texts: | 1,441 |
| writers: | [number] students from upper secondary schools, between 16-18 years old |
| text type: | picture description (narrative), opinion text (argumentative) |
| languages: | Italian, German |
| year of data collection: | 2007/08 |
| reference paper: | in preperation |
Corpus Access
The Corpus will be made accessible in 2021.