Graded lexicons: new resources for educational purposes and much more
(2015) EUROCALL 2015
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- 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.
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Gala, N., Billami, M. B., François, T., & Bernhard, D. (2015). Graded lexicons: new resources for educational purposes and much more. In Francesca Helm, Linda Bradley, Marta Guarda, Sylvie Thouësny (ed.), Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy (p. p. 204-209). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000334