Abstract
In this paper, we present a review of studies that have collected and annotated errors produced by people with dyslexia from corpora of written texts (six studies involving English, Spanish, German and French). Such resources are useful for studying the spelling difficulties of people with dyslexia. Results can be used for the design and development of assistive technologies. This paper also presents our contribution: a new study of errors from two corpora of typed texts written by French-speaking people with dyslexia. It details the methodology used to annotate the spelling errors extracted from these corpora and the analysis of these errors. The results of our study are compared to the results of the previous studies.
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(data transparency) The data that support the findings of this study are available at https://doi.org/10.34847/nkl.ced0370u and the dataset generated during the study is available at https://doi.org/10.34847/nkl.2ebcg834.
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Notes
FFDys : Fédération Française des Dys.
Plateforme Dys ASEI is an association providing support for adults with dyslexia in training, seeking employment or in employment.
For Catach, logograms (or word-signs) are words which cannot be dissociated from their spelling and whose main function is to distinguish homophones (Catach, 1986). For example, the homophones compte (account), comte (count), and conte (tale) are logograms.
We could not determine with certainty the meaning of these words and therefore we could not translate them.
This resource can be downloaded at: https://grammalecte.net/home.php?prj=fr.
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We thank the FFDys and the network of speech therapists from “Plateforme Dys ASEI” who provided us with the corpora of texts, as well as the people with dyslexia who wrote those texts. We also thank Jean-Yves Antoine for the many enriching discussions that made our study evolve.
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The research for this article was funded by a doctoral research grant (# 68685) from Paris 8 University.
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Bodard, J., Jost, C., Uzan, G. et al. Spelling errors made by people with dyslexia. Lang Resources & Evaluation 57, 293–322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-022-09603-6
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