Common Pitfalls in the Development of ICALL Applications

This blog is a piece of opinion where I sketch the process of developing NLP-based applications for second language learning and look at the process from the point of view of typical (mis)conceptions and challenges, as I have experienced them. Are we over-trusting the potential of NLP? Are teachers by definition reluctant to use NLP-based solutions in classrooms? How, if at all, can academic universities ensure sustainability of the developed applications? 1 Introduction Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Language Technology (LT) deal …

En data-intensiv forskningsmetodologi 1

I en värld där AI tar en allt större plats har datadriven forskning blivit orden på allas läppar. I det här blogginlägget tänkte jag prata lite om vad det innebär att forska med hjälp av stora mängder textdata, primärt inom humaniora. Detta inlägg är det första i en serie om de olika delarna av en data-intensiv forskningsmetodologi. Jag som skriver detta inlägg heter Nina Tahmasebi och är docent inom Språkteknologi och en data scientist, en dataforskare, med över 12 års erfarenhet av …

A multilingual annotated corpus of world’s natural language descriptions

Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Harald Hammarström, Markus Forsberg, Søren Wichmann The diversity of 7000 languages of the world represents an irreplaceable and abundant resource for understanding the unique communication system of our species (Evans and Levinson, 2009). All comparison and analysis of languages departs from language descriptions — publications that contain facts about particular languages. The typical examples of this genre are grammars and dictionaries (Hammarström and Nordhoff, 2011). Until recently, language descriptions were available in paper form only, with indexes as the …