Interconnecting lexical resources and word alignment: How do learners get on with particle verbs?

In this paper, we present a prototype for an online exercise aimed at learners of English and Swedish that serves multiple purposes. The exercise allows learners of these languages to train their knowledge of particle verbs receiving clues from the exercise application. At the same time, we collect information which will help us judge the accuracy of our graded word lists. As resources, we use lists with annotated levels from the proficiency scale defined by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and a multilingual corpus with syntactic dependency relations and word alignments for all language pairs. From the latter resource, we extract translation equivalents for particle verb constructions together with a list of parallel corpus examples that are used as clues in the exercise.

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