German Summary Corpus (GerSumCo) v1.0.0
Published in Eurac Research CLARIN Centre, 2024
Recommended citation: Wedig, H. & Strobl, C. (2024). German Summary Corpus (GerSumCo) v1.0.0, Eurac Research CLARIN Centre, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/81. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/81
The GerSumCo (German Summary Corpus) is a learner corpus comprising syntheses written by L2 German writers (CEFR B2/C1) and writers of L1 German. The corpus has been created with the objective of conducting a comparative analysis of the academic writing of L1 German and L2 German students. The two subcorpora (L1 and L2) contain a total of 286 texts (178 L1 and 108 L2), written by 286 students at 14 universities and language schools in Germany (Bamberg, Bochum, Dresden, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Kiel, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Osnabrück, Potsdam, Trier, Wuppertal), Poland (Gdansk) and China (Hangzhou). The texts were collected between 2022 and 2024 as part of a PhD research project about a contrastive interlanguage analysis using GerSumCo and Beldeko to identify L1-dependent features in cohesion in L2/L1 German.