Lexically Driven Error Detection and Correction

Authors

  • Cornelia Tschichold Université de Neuchâtel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v20i3.549-559

Keywords:

Lexicon, Multiword Units, Feedback, Error Detection, ICALL

Abstract

Recent progress in multimedia technology used in CALL has clearly been more impressive than progress in error detection capability. In order to overcome the obstacles in error detection needed for intelligent feedback in CALL, this paper calls for a new focus on lexical items, both single words and multiword units of various types. Single and multiword lexemes should not only be explicitly taught in CALL, but could also provide the key to more effective feedback on the language production by learners.

Author Biography

  • Cornelia Tschichold, Université de Neuchâtel

    Cornelia Tschichold worked and published on grammar checking for learners of English before writing her Ph.D. in the field of computational lexicography and phraseology. She is now working on a book dealing with the role of the lexicon in CALL and teaches English linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. When flooded with her students’ essays, she sometimes dreams about the perfect grammar checker.

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2013-01-14

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Tschichold, C. (2013). Lexically Driven Error Detection and Correction. CALICO Journal, 20(3), 549-559. https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.v20i3.549-559

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