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license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- de
- it
- cs
pretty_name: MERLIN Written Learner Corpus for Czech, German, Italian 1.1.
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Dataset Card for MERLIN

The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German, and Italian that has been
designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with
authentic learner data. The corpus contains learner texts produced in standardized language
certifications covering CEFR levels A1-C1. The MERLIN annotation scheme includes a wide
range of language characteristics that provide researchers with concrete examples of learner
performance and progress across multiple proficiency levels.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

The MERLIN corpus contains 2,286 texts for learners of Italian, German and Czech that were taken from written examinations of acknowledged test institutions. The exams aim to test knowledge across the levels A1-C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

- **Homepage :** https://merlin-platform.eu/
- **Funded by :** The MERLIN project was funded from 2012 until 2014 by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme under project number 518989-LLP-1-2011-1-DE-KA2-KA2MP.
- **Shared by :** Since 2018, corpus data are available through the CLARIN network.
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Czech, German and Italian
- **License:** Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

### Dataset Sources

- **Data PID:** https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/6
- **Verion controlled data (Git):** https://gitlab.inf.unibz.it/commul/merlin-platform/data-bundle
- **Paper:** Boyd, A., Hana, J., Nicolas, L., Meurers, D., Wisniewski, K., Abel, A., Schöne, K., Štindlová, B., & Vettori, C. (2014). The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 14), 26-31 May 2014, 1281–1288.  
  http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/606.html.

## Uses

- Teachers and material writers
- Curriculum design and course planning
- Language testing

For more details and practicla examples, see [use cases](https://www.merlin-platform.eu/C_teacher.php).

## Citation

**BibTeX:**

 @misc{20.500.12124/6,
 title = {{MERLIN} Written Learner Corpus for Czech, German, Italian 1.1},
 author = {Wisniewski, Katrin and Abel, Andrea and Vodi{\v c}kov{\'a}, Kate{\v r}ina and Plassmann, Sybille and Meurers, Detmar and Woldt, Claudia and Sch{\"o}ne, Karin and Blaschitz, Verena and Lyding, Verena and Nicolas, Lionel and Vettori, Chiara and Pe{\v c}en{\'y}, Pavel and Hana, Jirka and {\v C}urdov{\'a}, Veronika and {\v S}tindlov{\'a}, Barbora and Klein, Gudrun and Lauppe, Louise and Boyd, Adriane and Bykh, Serhiy and Krivanek, Julia},
 url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/6},
 note = {Eurac Research {CLARIN} Centre},
 copyright = {Creative Commons - Attribution-{ShareAlike} 4.0 International ({CC} {BY}-{SA} 4.0)},
 year = {2018} }