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Automated Generation of Example Contexts for Helping Children Learn Vocabulary

Liu Liu, Jack Mostow, and Gregory Aist
Workshop Paper, ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE '09), pp. 129 - 132, September, 2009

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of generating good example contexts to help children learn vocabulary. We construct candidate contexts from the Google N-gram corpus. We propose a set of constraints on good contexts, and use them to filter candidate example contexts. We evaluate the automatically generated contexts by compar

BibTeX

@workshop{Liu-2009-122134,
author = {Liu Liu and Jack Mostow and Gregory Aist},
title = {Automated Generation of Example Contexts for Helping Children Learn Vocabulary},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE '09)},
year = {2009},
month = {September},
pages = {129 - 132},
}