Arabic word synonyms are highly common and valued by Arabic speakers as part of a good writing style. There have been many games that assist Arabic learners, from vocabulary and spelling acquisition to learning grammatical rules and sentence structure. However, no games were found targeting synonym acquisition. This paper presents Faseeh, a serious game that assists Arabic speakers acquire word synonyms to enrich their linguistic and expressive skills. The game employed different gamification techniques; these techniques were implemented to improve user motivation and enhance learning experience. Faseeh statistics and evaluation show that it has delivered an educational content in a novel engaging manner.
@InProceedings{AL-KHALIFA18.2, author = {Hend Al-Khalifa ,Hadil Faisal and Rawan N. Al-Matham}, title = {Faseeh: A Serious Game for Arabic Synonym Acquisition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Jon Chamberlain and Udo Kruschwitz and Karën Fort and Christopher Cieri}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-10-8}, language = {english} }
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