%0 Journal Article %A Zarco Tejada, María Ángeles %A Noya Gallardo, María Del Carmen %A Merino Ferradá, María del Carmen %A Calderón López, María Isabel %T Building a Corpus of 2L English for Automatic Assessment: the CLEC Corpus %D 2015 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/17823 %X In this paper we describe the CLEC corpus, an ongoing project set up at the University of Cádiz with the purpose of building up a large corpus of English as a 2L classified according to CEFR proficiency levels and formed to train statistical models for automatic proficiency assessment. The goal of this corpus is twofold: on the one hand it will be used as a data resource for the development of automatic text classification systems and, on the other, it has been used as a means of teaching innovation techniques. %K automatic assessment %K CEFR proficiency labels %K teaching innovation techniques %K corpus linguistics %K automatic linguistic profile %~ Universidad de Cádiz