Identification and automatic extraction of good dictionary examples: the case (s) of GDEX

I Kosem, K Koppel, T Zingano Kuhn… - International Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Examples have always been an important part of a dictionary entry. As Rundell and Atkins
(2008: 454) point out,'you sometimes find that an entry is almost incomprehensible without …

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 …

[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] Exploiting alignment in multiparallel corpora for applications in linguistics and language learning

J Graën - 2018 - zora.uzh.ch
Exploiting Alignment in Multiparallel Corpora for Applications in Linguistics and Language
Learning Page 1 Exploiting Alignment in Multiparallel Corpora for Applications in Linguistics …

The instructional effectiveness of automatically generated exercises for learning French grammatical gender: preliminary results

S Bodnar - Swedish Language Technology Conference and …, 2022 - ecp.ep.liu.se
Abstract Research into Automatic Exercise Generation (AEG) contributes new tools aimed at
reducing the barrier to creating practice material, but few have been deployed in actual …

NT2Lex: A CEFR-graded lexical resource for Dutch as a foreign language linked to open Dutch WordNet

A Tack, T François, P Desmet… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we introduce NT2Lex, a novel lexical resource for Dutch as a foreign language
(NT2) which includes frequency distributions of 17,743 words and expressions attested in …

NLP methods for the automatic generation of exercises for second language learning from parallel corpus data

A Zanetti - 2020 - gupea.ub.gu.se
Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL), or Intelligent Computer Assisted
Language Instruction (ICALI), is a field of research that combines Artificial Intelligence and …

[PDF][PDF] Generating and authoring high-variability exercises from authentic texts

T Heck, D Meurers - Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Integrating adaptivity into Task-Based Language Teaching requires exercises that
transmit a specific content but whose complexity is adjusted to the learner's level. Thus …

More examples may benefit dictionary users

B Ptasznik - International Journal of Lexicography, 2023 - academic.oup.com
There is no doubt that example sentences enhance a dictionary's value by providing
dictionary users with the typical context of words. But how many examples do dictionary …

Interconnecting lexical resources and word alignment: How do learners get on with particle verbs?

D Alfter, J Graën - Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we present a prototype for an online exercise aimed at learners of English and
Swedish that serves multiple purposes. The exercise allows learners of the aforementioned …