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This dataset contains a number of short texts written by non-native speakers of English. Each participant was asked to provide a short answer to an open-ended question which targeted the proficiency level in which he/she was placed. Each question is therefore labelled with a particular proficiency level, as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Moreover, 299 of the collected answers were also labelled using the CEFR, by a panel of three CEFR-certified examiners. Their labels, as well as a majority-vote label, have been added to each one of these texts.

All texts are encoded in a TEI format.

More information can be found in the following paper. When using the data in your research or publication, please cite this work as well.

@inproceedings{tack-etal-2017-human,
    title = {Human and Automated {CEFR}-based Grading of Short Answers},
    author = {Tack, Ana{\"\i}s and Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas and Roekhaut, Sophie and Fairon, C{\'e}drick},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications},
    month = sep,
    year = {2017},
    address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    url = {https://aclanthology.org/W17-5018},
    doi = {10.18653/v1/W17-5018},
    pages = {169--179}
}

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Fixed

• All personal details have been anonymized using the following tags:
  • {name}: first or full names
  • {initial}: name initials
  • {number}: phone numbers

Added

• First release of the dataset