Šolar, the developmental corpus of Slovene

Arhar Holdt, Špela (author), Kosem, Iztok (author)

The paper presents the Šolar developmental corpus of Slovene, comprising the written language production of students in Slovene elementary and secondary schools, along with teacher feedback. The corpus consists of 5485 texts (1,635,407 words) and includes linguistically categorized teacher corrections, making the corpus unique in reflecting authentic classroom correction practices. The paper addresses the corpus compilation, content and format, annotation, availability, and its applicative value. While learner corpora are abundant, developmental corpora are less common. The paper bridges the gap by introducing the evolution from Šolar 1.0 to 3.0, emphasizing improvements in text collection, error and correction annotation, and categorization methodology. It also underlines the challenges and unresolved issues of compiling developmental corpora, most notably the lack of openly available tools and standards for different steps of the compilation process. Overall, the Šolar corpus offers valuable insights into language learning and teaching, contributing to teacher training, empirical studies in applied linguistics, and natural language processing tasks.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Šolar, developmental corpus, Slovene language, student writing, teacher feedback
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts; FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 1151-1177
• Numbering: Vol. 59, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-169224
• UDC: 004.85:81'322
• ISSN on article: 1574-020X
• DOI: 10.1007/s10579-024-09758-4
• COBISS.SI-ID: 204228867
• Publication date in RUL: 19.05.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Language resources and evaluation
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 1574-020X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 224002304

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Šolar, razvojni korpus, slovenščina, šolsko pisanje, učiteljski popravki

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0411
• Name: Jezikovni viri in tehnologije za slovenski jezik

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J7-3159
• Name: Empirična podlaga za digitalno podprt razvoj pisne jezikovne zmožnosti