LEA - Linguistic Exercises with Annotation Tools

In this paper we present LEA (Linguistic Exercises with Annotation tools). LEA is a new didactic concept helping students to become familiar with corpus linguistic methods and annotation tools. The main idea behind LEA is that classical linguistic exercises are being solved with annotation tools. We will present the advantages of this method (e.g. didactic benefits, automatic correction) and describe two already existing LEA e-learning packages: partof-speech annotation using tab-separatedvalue files with spreadsheet software and syntactic analysis with Synpathy.1