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title = "Analyzing Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy in Academic Language Development of {G}erman across Elementary and Secondary School",
author = "Weiss, Zarah and
Meurers, Detmar",
editor = "Yannakoudakis, Helen and
Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Leacock, Claudia and
Madnani, Nitin and
Pil{\'a}n, Ildik{\'o} and
Zesch, Torsten",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-4440",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4440",
pages = "380--393",
abstract = "We track the development of writing complexity and accuracy in German students{'} early academic language development from first to eighth grade. Combining an empirically broad approach to linguistic complexity with the high-quality error annotation included in the Karlsruhe Children{'}s Text corpus (Lavalley et al. 2015) used, we construct models of German academic language development that successfully identify the student{'}s grade level. We show that classifiers for the early years rely more on accuracy development, whereas development in secondary school is better characterized by increasingly complex language in all domains: linguistic system, language use, and human sentence processing characteristics. We demonstrate the generalizability and robustness of models using such a broad complexity feature set across writing topics.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Analyzing Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy in Academic Language Development of German across Elementary and Secondary School](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4440) (Weiss & Meurers, BEA 2019)
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