Kesksete lausekomponentide järjestus õppijakeeles: arvutianalüüsi katse
Automatic word order analysis of Estonian as a second language: the nuclear sentence

Summary/Abstract: This article gives an overview of our work on the automatic analysis of second language word order. For this purpose, an error analyzer and a set of correct word order patterns found from the fiction sub-corpus of Tartu University’s Corpus of Written Estonian were created. It is important to be able to form the nuclear sentence of the target language well (incl. subject, finite verb, obligatory modifiers of the verb and other elements influencing the sentence word order) because a well-formed core clause conveys the integral meaning of the whole sentence and helps to avoid the errors that even the very high level learners make. The article describes the learner’s difficulties in choosing, inflecting and ordering the core elements of the sentence (in the data of EVKK – Estonian Interlanguage Corpus). It gives an overview of the first steps of the automatic analysis of learner language word order, introduces the set of correct word order patterns and the prototype of the word order error analyzer and analyzes the factors influencing the success of its performance.

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