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Write & Improve is an online web platform that assists non-native English students with their writing. Specifically, students from around the world submit letters, stories, articles and essays in response to various prompts, and the W&I system provides instant feedback. Since W&I went live in 2014, W&I annotators have manually annotated some of these submissions and assigned them a CEFR level.
The LOCNESS corpus consists of essays written by native English students. It was originally compiled by researchers at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain. Since native English students also sometimes make mistakes, we asked the W&I annotators to annotate a subsection of LOCNESS so researchers can test the effectiveness of their systems on the full range of English levels and abilities.
@article{wi_locness,
author = {Helen Yannakoudakis and Øistein E Andersen and Ardeshir Geranpayeh and Ted Briscoe and Diane Nicholls},
title = {Developing an automated writing placement system for ESL learners},
journal = {Applied Measurement in Education},
volume = {31},
number = {3},
pages = {251-267},
year  = {2018},
doi = {10.1080/08957347.2018.1464447},
}
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