Automatic Generation of Lexical Exercises
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چکیده
We propose an approach towards automatic generation of lexical exercises for learners of English. The techniques and tools used for generation of five different exercise types are described. We provide examples and evaluate the quality of generated exercises. We also compare the exercises generated on the basis of two different corpora by conducting an experiment. In the experiment learners complete both automatically generated exercises and exercises from coursebooks, and the results reveal which corpus is better suited to the generation of exercises.
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