9TestBuilder_intro.pdf

1Aleksandra Wojnowska niniel@ Przemyslaw Kaszubski przemka@.pl PALC 2003 ?ód?, 05 April 2003 TestBuilder - an integrated tool for making corpus-based language tests Free download: .pl/~przemka/TB.htm I. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM 1. Introduction a) full-text-samples test module b) sentence-based, concordance-like testing module 2. TestBuilder vs. the concordancer Concordancers: 1) work effectively primarily with plain text corpora; 2) tagged corpus upsets display; 3) no direct editing; 4) no test/exercise formats and answer keys (exc. node-word blanking). TestBuilder: 1) POS tagger (Brills*); 2) tokenisation (query syntax includes positions in a sentence); 3) tags filtered from display; 4) several test types (fixed-length blanking, matching-length gapping, hangman) and variants; 5) managing and editing a test/exercise; 6) answer keys; 7) several saving options, e.g. test project save -------------- * Other systems may be used but tagged file must look similar to this: Civilians/NNS trying/VBG to/TO leave/VB Basra/NNP came/VBD under/IN fire/NN from/IN Iraqi/NNP paramilitaries/NNS today/RB ,/, British/NNP military/JJ commanders/NNS are/VBP reporting/VBG ./. customisable TAGLIST.CFG, e.g.: CC Coordinating conjunction CD Cardinal number DT Determiner EX Existential there FW Foreign word IN Preposition or subordinating conjunction JJ Adjective ... 2Query options: Category of queried expression Example of query pattern Matching sentence any word * any sentence with at least one word in it, i.e. any sentence whatsoever any word of specific length ?????????? any sentence containing a 10-letter word specifed word Simple any sentence containing the word simple not the specified word !simple any sentence NOT containing the word simple multiple words in one sentence 1. terms reply 2. go went 1. any sentence containing both the word terms and the word reply 2. any sentence containing both the word go and the word went (fixed) phrases 1. terms of the reply 2. !in terms of !the 1. se