Prototypes
This page provides the list of known prototypes that are being developed in the context of enetCollect.
v-trel: the implicit crowdsourcing vocabulary trainer
V-trel is a vocabulary trainer that uses exercises generated from language resources such as ConceptNet and crowdsources the responses of the learners to enrich the language resource. So far, we performed an empirical evaluation of our approach with 60 non-native speakers over two days, which shows that new entries to expand ConceptNet can efficiently be gathered through vocabulary exercises on word relations.
External links to the project
Related publications
Nicolas, L., Aparaschivei, L., Lyding, V., Rodosthenous, C., Sangati, F., König, A., & Forascu, C. (2021). An Experiment on Implicitly Crowdsourcing Expert Knowledge about Romanian Synonyms from L1 Language Learners. Proceedings of 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021), 1–14. https://ep.liu.se/konferensartikel.aspx?series=ecp&issue=177&Article_No=1 Cite Download
Rodosthenous, C., Lyding, V., Sangati, F., König, A., ul Hassan, U., Nicolas, L., Horbacauskiene, J., Katinskaia, A., & Aparaschivei, L. (2020). Using Crowdsourced Exercises for Vocabulary Training to Expand ConceptNet. Proceedings of LREC 2020, 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 307--316. Cite Download
Rodosthenous, C., Lyding, V., König, A., Horbacauskiene, J., Katinskaia, A., ul Hassan, U., Isaak, N., Sangati, F., & Nicolas, L. (2019, May 21). Designing a Prototype Architecture for Crowdsourcing Language Resources. Poster Session of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge 2019. Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge 2019. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2402/paper4.pdf Cite Download
Lyding, V., Rodosthenous, C. T., Sangati, F., ul Hassan, U., Nicolas, L., König, A., Horbacauskiene, J., & Katinskaia, A. (2019, April 8). v-trel: Vocabulary Trainer for Tracing Word Relations - An Implicit Crowdsourcing Approach. Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2019. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria. http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2019/proceedings-ranlp-2019.pdf Cite Download
Contact persons in enetCollect: Verena Lyding and Christos Rodosthenous
Learning and Reading Assistant (LARA)
LARA is a collaborative open project, initiated during Q3 2018, whose goal is to create resources via crowdsourcing techniques that help people read L2 texts in foreign/archaic languages. It does this by providing tools that make it easy to transform plain text documents into hypertext versions that give non-native readers various kinds of help including concordances, linked audio files, translations and vocabulary lists. LARA tools can be downloaded and run on a laptop, and are also accessible through a free open online portal. An enetCollect-sponsored hands-on LARA workshop was held in Trnava, Slovakia, in November 2019, and was attended by over 40 people.
External links to the project
Related publications
Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Björg Guðmarsdóttir, B., Habibi, H., Örn Jónsson, B., Rayner, M., & Vigfússon, S. (2020, August 20). LARA: An extensible open source platform for learning languages by reading. Proceedings of EUROCALL 2020, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. EUROCALL 2020, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, Copenhagen. Cite Download
Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Björg Guðmarsdóttir, B., Habibi, H., Örn Jónsson, B., Rayner, M., & Vigfússon, S. (2020, August 20). LARA: An extensible open source platform for learning languages by reading [Online Presentation]. LARA: An extensible open source platform for learning languages by reading, Copenhagen. Cite Download
Bédi, B., Bernharðsson, H., Chua, C., Björg Guðmarsdóttir, B., Habibi, H., & Rayner, M. (2020, August 20). Constructing an interactive Old Norse text with LARA. Proceedings of EUROCALL 2020, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. EUROCALL 2020, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning., Copenhagen. Cite Download
Akhlaghi, E., Bédi, B., Bektaş, F., Berthelsen, H., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Cucchiarini, C., Eryiğit, G., Gerlach, J., Habibi, H., Ní Chiaráin, N., Rayner, M., Steingrímsson, S., & Strik, H. (2020). Constructing Multimodal Language Learner Texts Using LARA: Experiences with Nine Languages. Proceedings of LREC 2020, 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 323--331. Cite Download
Chua, C., & Rayner, M. (2019, November 20). Vegetarians Vampires: why the CALL Technology Provider Doesn’t Have to Suck the Teacher’s Blood [Regular presentation]. ICERI 2019, 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville, Spain. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_998_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Chua, C., & Rayner, M. (2019). Vegetarians Vampires: why the CALL Technology Provider Doesn’t Have to Suck the Teacher’s Blood. Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 7860–7869. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.1863 Cite Download
Habibi, H. (2019). LARA Portal: a Tool for Teachers to Develop Interactive Text Content, an Environment for Students to improve Reading Skill. Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 8221–8229. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.1954 Cite Download
Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Habibi, H., Rayner, M., & Zuckermann, G. (2019). Easy Construction of Multimedia Online Language Textbooks And Linguistics Papers with LARA. Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 7302–7310. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.1737 Cite Download
Akhlaghi, E., Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Habibi, H., Ikeda, J., Rayner, E., Sestigiani, S., & Zuckermann, G. (2019). Overview of LARA: A Learning and Reading Assistant. Proceedings of SLaTE 2019: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 99--103. https://doi.org/10.21437/SLaTE.2019-19 Cite Download
Habibi, H. (2019, November 11). LARA Portal: a Tool for Teachers to Develop Interactive Text Content, an Environment for Students to improve Reading Skill [Poster presentation]. ICERI2019, 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilla, Spain. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_994_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Habibi, H., Rayner, M., & Zuckermann, G. (2019, November 11). Easy Construction of Multimedia Online Language Textbooks and Linguistics Papers with LARA [Poster presentation]. ICERI2019, 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilla, Spain. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_996_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Akhlaghi, E., Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Habibi, H., Ikeda, J., Rayner, M., Sestigiani, S., & Zuckermann, G. (2019, September 20). Overview of LARA: A Learning and Reading Assistant (Poster) [Poster presentation]. SLaTE 2019: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Graz, Austria. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_933_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Akhlaghi, E., Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Habibi, H., Ikeda, J., Rayner, M., Sestigiani, S., & Zuckermann, G. (2019, September 20). Overview of LARA: A Learning and Reading Assistant [Regular Presentation]. SLaTE 2019: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Graz, Austria. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_932_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Akhlaghi, E., Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Habibi, H., Ikeda, J., Rayner, M., Sestigiani, S., & Zuckermann, G. (2019). Demonstration of LARA: A Learning and Reading Assistant. Proceedings of SLaTE 2019: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 37–38. https://doi.org/10.21437/SLaTE.2019-19 Cite Download
Rayner, E., & Chua, C. (2019, September 5). LARA: an Open Platform for Creating Reader-Friendly Online Language Texts [Regular Presentation]. Seminar at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=fold_841&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Bédi, B., Chua, C., Habibi, H., Martinez, R., & Rayner, E. (2019, August 29). LARA: The Learning and Reading Assistant [Regular Presentation]. EUROCALL 2019 - CALL and Complexity, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_941_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Bédi, B., Chua, C., Habibi, H., Martinez-Lopez, R., & Rayner, M. (2019, August 29). Using LARA for language learning: a pilot study for Icelandic. CALL and Complexity – Short Papers from EUROCALL 2019. EUROCALL 2019 - CALL and Complexity, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. https://books.google.fr/books?id=EHnCDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA33&lr&hl=fr&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false Cite
Contact persons in enetCollect: Branislav Bédi, Cathy Chua, Hanieh Habibi and Manny Rayner.
Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Word
Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Words is a prototype of a role playing game which allows to both i) crowdsource lexical units (including idioms) for a language and ii) help the player improve their knowledge of the language. Our implementation of the game is focused on non-standardized languages for which the intergenerational transmission is not as efficient as it used to be. In order to address this, we incentivize the participation of a “Grand Guru”, from whom the player needs help to fulfill their mission. The first iteration of this project has been developed during the first hackathon organized by EnetCollect in January 2019.
External links to the project
Related publications
Millour, A. (2019, May 18). Quest Game or “Katana and Grand Guru: A Game of the Lost Words” [Poster presentation]. L&TC’19, 9th Language & Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland. http://www.enetcollect.net/ilias/goto.php?target=file_829_download&client_id=enetcollect Cite
Millour, A., Araneta, M. G., Lazić Konjik, I., Raffone, A., Pilatte, Y.-A., & Fort, K. (2019, May 17). Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Words (DEMO). Proceedings of the Ninth Language & Technology Conference. 9th Language \& Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC’19), Poznan, Poland. Cite Download
Contact persons in enetCollect: Alice Millour, Karen Fort, Marianne Grace Araneta, Ivana Lazic Konjik , Annalisa Raffone and Yann-Alan PILATTE.