Abstract
The interest and demand to foreign language learning are increased tremendously along with the globalization and freedom of movement in the world. Today, the technological developments allow the creation of supportive materials for foreign language learners. However, the language acquisition between languages with high typological differences still poses challenges for this area and the learning task it self. This paper introduces our preliminary study for building an educational application to help foreign language learning between Turkish and English. The paper presents the use of finite state technology for building a Turkish word synthesis system (which allows to choose word-related features among predefined grammatical affix categories such as tense, modality and polarity etc..) and a wordlevel translation system between the languages in focus. The developed system is observed to outperform the popular online translation systems for word-level translation in terms of grammatically correct outputs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, NLP-TEA 2015 - in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2015 |
| Editors | Hsin-Hsi Chen, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Yuji Matsumoto, Lung Hsiang Wong |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 94-98 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781941643709 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, NLP-TEA 2015 - Beijing, China Duration: 31 Jul 2015 → … |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, NLP-TEA 2015 - in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2015 |
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Conference
| Conference | 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, NLP-TEA 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Beijing |
| Period | 31/07/15 → … |
Bibliographical note
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