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NLP Corpus Observatory – Looking for Constellations in Parallel Corpora to Improve Learners’ Collocational Skills

Schneider, Gerold; Graën, Johannes (2018). NLP Corpus Observatory – Looking for Constellations in Parallel Corpora to Improve Learners’ Collocational Skills. In: 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning at SLTC 2018 (NLP4CALL 2018), Stockholm, 7 November 2018. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, 69-78.

Abstract

The use of corpora in language learning, both in classroom and self-study situations, has proven useful. Investigations into technology use show a benefit for learners that are able to work with corpus data using easily accessible technology. But relatively little work has been done on exploring the possibilities of parallel corpora for language learning applications. Our work described in this paper explores the applicability of a parallel corpus enhanced with several layers generated by NLP techniques for extracting collocations that are non-compositional and thus indispensable to learn. We identify constellations, i.e. combinations of intra- and interlingual relations, calculate association scores on each relation and, based thereon, a joint score for each constellation. This way, we are able to find relevant collocations for different types of constellations. We evaluate our approach and discuss scenarios in which language learners can playfully explore collocations. Our explorative web tool is freely accessible, generates collocation dictionaries on the fly, and links them to example sentences to ensure context embedding.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > English Department
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:820 English & Old English literatures
Uncontrolled Keywords:natural language processing, NLP, corpus linguistics, learner language, computer-assisted language learning, CALL, parallel corpora, collocations
Language:English
Event End Date:7 November 2018
Deposited On:12 Nov 2018 10:56
Last Modified:03 Dec 2020 15:19
Publisher:Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Official URL. An embargo period may apply.
Official URL:https://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/icall/7th-nlp4call#prog
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