The Design of a Digital Resource to Store the Knowledge of Linguistic Errors

this paper we present the design of a digital resource which will be used as a repository of information of linguistic errors. As a first step in the design of this database, we made a classification of possible errors. This classification is based on information contained in Basque grammars (Alberdi et al., 2001; Zubiri, 1994) and our previous experience on knowledge representation of language students during their learning process (Daz de Ilarraza et al. 1997). Besides, it has been carried out in collaboration with linguists of our group (http:ixa.si.ehu.es). With the purpose of validating this classification, a questionnaire was presented to experienced Basque teachers and proofreaders from newspapers or publishing houses. With their advice we completed a classification of possible errors. We designed a Zope interface (Zope is a framework for building web applications that lets you connect to external databases (Latteier et al., 2001)) so that linguists and experts in the subject will be able to introduce, through Internet, any error found in a corpus (along with its corresponding information