Learner modeling Authentic Text ICALL First Language Acquisition Stages of First Language Acquisition Typical stages of first language acquisition: I Babies play with making sounds and around six months, typical babies begin to babble I use sequences of consonants and vowels, e.g., bababa I Quickly start learning words by first birthday I Form simple 2-word utterances by the time they turn 2 I ...

This paper describes the development of an intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) system for learning Arabic. This system could be used for learning Arabic by students at primary schools or by learners of Arabic as a second or foreign language. It explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for learning Arabic. The learners are encouraged to produce sentenc...

In this paper we describe the techniques used for student modelling in an adaptive Webbased Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) system. The system teaches the domain of the passive voice of the English language and is called Web Passive Voice Tutor (WebPVT). It dynamically models a student's progress in learning and is able to provide individualised tutoring and advice tailo...

This paper presents an ICALL system for learning complex inflection systems, based upon finite state transducers (FST). Using a FST has several advantages: it makes it possible to generate a virtually unlimited set of exercises with a relatively small amount of work, and it makes it possible to process both input and output according to a wide range of parameters, such as dialect variation, and...

the aim of this paper is to report on an attempt to design and implement an intelligent system capable of generating the correct part of speech for a given sentence while the sentence is totally new to the system and not stored in any database available to the system. it follows the same steps a normal individual does to provide the correct parts of speech using a natural language processor. it...

GLOSSER is designed to support reading and learning to read in a foreign language. There are four language pairs currently supported by GLOSSER: EnglishBulgarian, English-Estonian, EnglishHungarian and French-Dutch. The program is operational on UNIX and Windows '95 platforms, and has undergone a pilot user-study. A demonstration (in UNIX) for Applied Natural Language Processing emphasizes comp...

GLOSSER is designed to support reading and learning to read in a foreign language. There are four language pairs currently supported by GLOSSER: EnglishBulgarian, English-Estonian, EnglishHungarian and French-Dutch. The program is operational on UNIX and Windows '95 platforms, and has undergone a pilot user-study. A demonstration (in UNIX) for Applied Natural Language Processing emphasizes comp...

The present article demostrates the implementation of a psycholinguistic model of second language learners' interlanguage in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) system for studying second language acquisition. We have focused our work on the common interlanguage structures of students at the same language level. The Interlanguage Level Model (ILM) is made up of these stru...

Let F (x,y) be t he joint d istri but ion function of (X, y), possessing a probability density funct ion f(x,y). Let F I(X) and l>'2(Y) be the marginal distribut ion fun ctions of X and Y respectively. Let a be a quantile of FI (x) and f3 be a quantile of F2(y). A random sampl e (X k, Y k), k= 1, 2, ... , n, is drawn a nd t he values on each variate are ordered so that X:< X; a nd Y;< Y; if i <...

The emerging interdisciplinary field of Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) aims to integrate the knowledge from computational linguistics into computer-assisted language learning (CALL). REAP.PT is a project emerging from this new field, aiming to teach Portuguese in an innovative and appealing way, and adapted to each student. In this paper, we present a new improvement of...