A Reading Environment for Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language

COLING 2016  ·  John Lee, Chun Yin Lam, Shu Jiang ·

We present a mobile app that provides a reading environment for learners of Chinese as a foreign language. The app includes a text database that offers over 500K articles from Chinese Wikipedia. These articles have been word-segmented; each word is linked to its entry in a Chinese-English dictionary, and to automatically-generated review exercises. The app estimates the reading proficiency of the user based on a {``}to-learn{''} list of vocabulary items. It automatically constructs and maintains this list by tracking the user{'}s dictionary lookup behavior and performance in review exercises. When a user searches for articles to read, search results are filtered such that the proportion of unknown words does not exceed a user-specified threshold.

PDF Abstract COLING 2016 PDF COLING 2016 Abstract
No code implementations yet. Submit your code now

Datasets


  Add Datasets introduced or used in this paper

Results from the Paper


  Submit results from this paper to get state-of-the-art GitHub badges and help the community compare results to other papers.

Methods


No methods listed for this paper. Add relevant methods here