Darģis, RobertsAuziņa, IlzeKaija, IngaLevāne-Petrova, KristīnePokratniece, KristīneCalzolari, NicolettaBechet, FredericBlache, PhilippeChoukri, KhalidCieri, ChristopherDeclerck, ThierryGoggi, SaraIsahara, HitoshiMaegaard, BenteMariani, JosephMazo, HeleneOdijk, JanPiperidis, Stelios2023-01-042023-01-042022Darģis, R, Auziņa, I, Kaija, I, Levāne-Petrova, K & Pokratniece, K 2022, LaVA - Latvian Language Learner corpus. in N Calzolari, F Bechet, P Blache, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 : Proceedings. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 727-731, 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022, Marseille, France, 20/06/22. < https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.77 >conference97910955467269791095546726Mendeley: abb50f8f-0711-34e0-97fa-973e21cdeb28https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/10007Funding Information: The work reported in this paper is a part of the project Development of Learner Corpus of Latvian: methods, tools and applications (Project No. lzp-2018/1-0527) that is being implemented at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS UL) since September 2018. The project is financed by Latvian Council of Science. This work is also a part of the Latvian State Research Programme Letonika - Fostering a Latvian and European Society project Research on Modern Latvian Language and Development of Language Technology (No. VPP-LETONIKA-2021/1-0006) and has received financial support from the Latvian Language Agency through the grant agreement No. 4.6/2019-029. Publisher Copyright: © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0.This paper presents the Latvian Language Learner Corpus (LaVA) developed at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia. LaVA corpus contains 1015 essays (190k tokens and 790k characters excluding whitespaces) from foreigners studying at Latvian higher education institutions and who are learning Latvian as a foreign language in the first or second semester, reaching the A1 (possibly A2) Latvian language proficiency level. The corpus has morphological and error annotations. Error analysis and the statistics of the LaVA corpus are also provided in the paper. The corpus is publicly available at: http://www.korpuss.lv/id/LaVA.51866703enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessacquisitionannotatedLatvianlearner corpus5.3 Educational sciences6.2 Languages and Literature3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus databaseLanguage and LinguisticsLibrary and Information SciencesLinguistics and LanguageEducation/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontobookanthology/conferencehttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144354957&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.77