The Multimodal Child Language Acquisition

The Multimodal Child Language Acquisition is a network of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University. It is founded by the Danish Research Councils with start in March 2019 and end in February 2021. The network will mainly address research related to the use and role of gestures in child language acquisition focusing on bilingual children (English/Chinese, Danish/Chinese, Danish/English), but themes related to enetCollect, such as the analysis of code switching and code mixing in the various language combinations using NLP, and the use of crowdsourcing will also be addressed.

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Contact person in enetCollect for this project:

Costanza Navarretta

Large-Scale Information Extraction and Gamification for Crowdsourced Language Learning

The project aims at contributing to the activities of COST Action CA 16105 – enetCollect – in the areas related to large-scale information extraction from the web and gamification of the preparation and the annotation of multimedia content suitable for various language learning activities. We will explore advanced methods for web-scale crawling and semantic enrichment of the collected material as well as modern human-computer interaction technologies engaging users in the process of acquisition of languages in the form of a game.

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Contact person in enetCollect for this project:

Pavel Smrz