A First Approach to the Creation of a Spanish Corpus of Dyslexic Texts

Corpora of dyslexic texts are valuable for studying dyslexia and addressing accessibility practices, among others. However, due to the difficulty of finding texts written by dyslexics, these kind of resources are scarce. In this paper, we introduce a small Spanish corpus of dyslexic texts with annotated errors. Since these errors require non-standard annotation, we present the annotation criteria established for the different types of dyslexic errors. We compare our preliminary findings with a similar corpus in English. This comparison suggests that the corpus shall be enlarged in future work.

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