Sprinter: Language Technologies for Interactive and Multimedia Language Learning
Renlong Ai, Marcela Charfuelàn, Walter Kasper, Tina Klüwer, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu, Sandra Gasber, Philip Gienandt · 2014
Modern language learning courses are no longer exclusively based on books or face-to-face lectures.More and more lessons make use of multimedia and personalized learning methods.Many of these are based on e-learning solutions.Learning via the Internet provides 7/24 services that require sizeable human resources.Therefore we witness a growing economic pressure to employ computer-assisted methods for improving language learning in quality, efficiency and scalability.In this paper, we will address three applications of language technologies for language learning: 1) Methods and strategies for pronunciation training in second language learning, e.g., multimodal feedback via visualization of sound features, speech verification and prosody transplantation; 2) Dialogue-based language learning games; 3) Application of parsing and generation technologies to the automatic generation of paraphrases for the semi-automatic production of learning material.