AUTOMATIZED MEMORY TECHNIQUES FOR VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava

2011

Abstract

Vocabulary acquisition is a very important step for learning a new language. On the other hand, many learners find this step difficult and time consuming. Several vocabulary teaching methods try to facilitate this step with various verbal and visual tips. However, the preparation of these tips generally necessitates a huge amount of time, money and human labor. In this paper, we propose to exploit Natural Language Processing driven creativity to develop an automatic system for task of vocabulary teaching. This system can automatically generate memorization tips for the words which users would like to memorize. The preliminary results are promising and motivating for further investigation, since they show that our approach can be quite effective on the related task.

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Özbal G. and Strapparava C. (2011). AUTOMATIZED MEMORY TECHNIQUES FOR VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8425-49-2, pages 79-87. DOI: 10.5220/0003330300790087


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@conference{csedu11,
author={Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava},
title={AUTOMATIZED MEMORY TECHNIQUES FOR VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2011},
pages={79-87},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003330300790087},
isbn={978-989-8425-49-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - AUTOMATIZED MEMORY TECHNIQUES FOR VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
SN - 978-989-8425-49-2
AU - Özbal G.
AU - Strapparava C.
PY - 2011
SP - 79
EP - 87
DO - 10.5220/0003330300790087