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Graded lexicons: new resources for educational purposes and much more

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Gala, Núria [Aix Marseille Université & LIF-CNRS] Billami, Mokhtar B. [Aix Marseille Université & LIF-CNRS] François, Thomas [UCL] Bernhard, Delphine [LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg]

Computational tools and resources play an important role for vocabulary acquisition. Although a large variety of dictionaries and learning games are available, few resources provide information about the complexity of a word, either for learning or for comprehension. The idea here is to use frequency counts combined with intra-lexical variables to account for the difficulty of a word. By using such predictors, we have built a lexical resource for French, ReSyf, where words are available with their word senses and their synonyms according to a complexity level. In this talk, we will present the methodology to build the resource and we will discuss possible applications going from enhancing vocabulary acquisition to text simplification.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Conference "EUROCALL 2015"
Host document Francesca Helm, Linda Bradley, Marta Guarda, Sylvie Thouësny ; "Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy"- p. 204-209 (ISBN : 978-1-908416-29-2)
Publisher Research-publishing.net
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/ILC/PLIN - Pôle de recherche en linguistique
Keywords iCALL ; vocabulary acquisition ; graded synonym lexicon ; lexical complexity ; text simplification
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Bibliographic reference Gala, Núria ; Billami, Mokhtar B. ; François, Thomas ; Bernhard, Delphine. Graded lexicons: new resources for educational purposes and much more.EUROCALL 2015In: Francesca Helm, Linda Bradley, Marta Guarda, Sylvie Thouësny, Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy, Research-publishing.net2015, p. 204-209
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/193881