Automatic Selection of Suitable Sentences for Language Learning Exercises

• DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2013.000164
• Publication Date: 2014-01-09T13:47:52Z
• Authors: Ildikó Pilán; Elena Volodina; Richard Johansson
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 4. Education; 0305 other medical science

In our study we investigated second and foreign language (L2) sentence readability, an area little explored so far in the case of several languages, including Swedish. The outcome research consists two methods for selection from native corpora based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) machine learning (ML) techniques. approaches have been made available online within Larka, Intelligent CALL (ICALL) platform offering activities learners students linguistics. Such automatic suitable sentences can be valuable L2 teachers during creation new teaching materials, who look additional self-study exercises as well lexicographers search example to illustrate meaning a vocabulary item. Members all these potential user groups evaluated found majority selected purposes.