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| Title | Sprinter: Language Technologies for Interactive and Multimedia Language Learning |
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| Authors | Renlong Ai, Marcela Charfuelan, Walter Kasper, Tina Klüwer, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu, Sandra Gasber and Philip Gienandt |
| Abstract | Modern language learning courses are no longer exclusively based on books or face-to-face lectures. More and more lessons make use of multimedia and personalized learning methods. Many of these are based on e-learning solutions. Learning via the Internet provides 7/24 services that require sizeable human resources. Therefore we witness a growing economic pressure to employ computer-assisted methods for improving language learning in quality, efficiency and scalability. In this paper, we will address three applications of language technologies for language learning: 1) Methods and strategies for pronunciation training in second language learning, e.g., multimodal feedback via visualization of sound features, speech verification and prosody transplantation; 2) Dialogue-based language learning games; 3) Application of parsing and generation technologies to the automatic generation of paraphrases for the semi-automatic production of learning material. |
| Topics | Tools, Systems, Applications, Other |
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Sprinter: Language Technologies for Interactive and Multimedia Language Learning |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{AI14.416, author = {Renlong Ai and Marcela Charfuelan and Walter Kasper and Tina Klüwer and Hans Uszkoreit and Feiyu Xu and Sandra Gasber and Philip Gienandt}, title = {Sprinter: Language Technologies for Interactive and Multimedia Language Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |