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+# DysListGerman
+DysList, a list of dyslexic errors annotated with linguistic, phonetic and visual features. Presented 2016 at the LREC conference: Rauschenberger, Maria; Rello, Luz; Füchse, Silke & Thomaschewski, Jörg. 2016.  A Language Resource of German Errors Written by Children with Dyslexia. [In Press] Proc. LREC 2016. Portorož (Slovenia), 23-28, May. The Resource and further information are also available at the Web Research Group from UPF at http://grupoweb.upf.es/WRG/DysWebxia.php?lang=#resources