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| Title | A Flexible Language Learning Platform Based on Language Resources and Web Services |
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| Authors | Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Lars Borin and Therese Lindström Tiedemann |
| Abstract | We present Lärka, the language learning platform of Spräkbanken (the Swedish Language Bank). It consists of an exercise generator which reuses resources available through Spräkbanken: mainly Korp, the corpus infrastructure, and Karp, the lexical infrastructure. Through Lärka we reach new user groups ― students and teachers of Linguistics as well as second language learners and their teachers ― and this way bring Spräkbanken's resources in a relevant format to them. Lärka can therefore be viewed as an case of real-life language resource evaluation with end users. In this article we describe Lärka's architecture, its user interface, and the five exercise types that have been released for users so far. The first user evaluation following in-class usage with students of linguistics, speech therapy and teacher candidates are presented. The outline of future work concludes the paper. |
| Topics | Corpus (Creation, Annotation, etc.), Speech Synthesis |
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A Flexible Language Learning Platform Based on Language Resources and Web Services |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{VOLODINA14.892, author = {Elena Volodina and Ildikó Pilán and Lars Borin and Therese Lindström Tiedemann}, title = {A Flexible Language Learning Platform Based on Language Resources and Web Services}, 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} } |