A readable read: Automatic assessment of language learning materials based on linguistic complexity

I Pilán, S Vajjala, E Volodina - arxiv preprint arxiv:1603.08868, 2016 - arxiv.org
Corpora and web texts can become a rich language learning resource if we have a means
of assessing whether they are linguistically appropriate for learners at a given proficiency …

[PDF][PDF] Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability

I Pilán, E Volodina, R Johansson - … on innovative use of NLP for …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
We present approaches for the identification of sentences understandable by second
language learners of Swedish, which can be used in automatically generated exercises …

Predicting proficiency levels in learner writings by transferring a linguistic complexity model from expert-written coursebooks

I Pilán, E Volodina, T Zesch - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
The lack of a sufficient amount of data tailored for a task is a well-recognized problem for
many statistical NLP methods. In this paper, we explore whether data sparsity can be …

Investigating the importance of linguistic complexity features across different datasets related to language learning

I Pilán, E Volodina - Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
We present the results of our investigations aiming at identifying the most informative
linguistic complexity features for classifying language learning levels in three different …

Towards single word lexical complexity prediction

D Alfter, E Volodina - Proceedings of the thirteenth workshop on …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we present work-in-progress where we investigate the usefulness of previously
created word lists to the task of single-word lexical complexity analysis and prediction of the …

[LIVRE][B] Exploring natural language processing for single-word and multi-word lexical complexity from a second language learner perspective

D Alfter - 2021 - gupea.ub.gu.se
In this thesis, we investigate how natural language processing (NLP) tools and techniques
can be applied to vocabulary aimed at second language learners of Swedish in order to …

[PDF][PDF] Adding a constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken.

B Lyngfelt, L Borin, M Forsberg, J Prentice, R Rydstedt… - KONVENS, 2012 - academia.edu
This paper presents the integrated Swedish resource network of Språkbanken in general,
and its latest addition–a constructicon–in particular. The constructicon, which is still in its …

Candidate sentence selection for language learning exercises: from a comprehensive framework to an empirical evaluation

I Pilán, E Volodina, L Borin - arxiv preprint arxiv:1706.03530, 2017 - arxiv.org
We present a framework and its implementation relying on Natural Language Processing
methods, which aims at the identification of exercise item candidates from corpora. The …

[PDF][PDF] A flexible language learning platform based on language resources and web services.

E Volodina, I Pilán, L Borin, TL Tiedemann - LREC, 2014 - lrec-conf.org
We present Lärka, the language learning platform of Språkbanken (the Swedish Language
Bank). It consists of an exercise generator which reuses resources available through …

Automatic Selection of Suitable Sentences for Language Learning Exercises.

I Pilán, E Volodina, R Johansson - Research-publishing. net, 2013 - ERIC
In our study we investigated second and foreign language (L2) sentence readability, an area
little explored so far in the case of several languages, including Swedish. The outcome of …