Paper Info
Title
Answering Confucius: The Reason Why We Complicate.
Abstract
Learning is a level-progressing process. In any field of study, one must master basic concepts to understand more complex ones. Thus, it is important that during the learning process learners are presented and challenged with knowledge which they are able to comprehend (not a level below, not a level too high). In this work we focus on language learners. By gradually improving (complicating) texts, readers are challenged to learn new vocabulary. To achieve such goals, in this paper we propose and evaluate the 'complicator' that translates given sentences to a chosen level of higher degree of difficulty. The 'complicator' is based on natural language processing and information retrieval approaches that perform lexical replacements. 30 native English speakers participated in a user study evaluating our methods on an expert-tailored dataset of children books. Results show that our tool can be of great utility for language learners who are willing to improve their vocabulary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_45
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Technology enhanced learning,language development,learning process
On Language,Computer science,Natural language processing,Language development,Artificial intelligence,Vocabulary,Linguistics,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8095
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernardo Pereira Nunes118530.96
Stella Pedrosa200.34
Ricardo Kawase31009.99
Mohammad Alrifai478028.79
Ivana Marenzi56512.12
Stefan Dietze659768.07
Marco Antonio Casanova717824.18