@inProceedings{Pilán-Ildikó2013-188465,
title = {Automatic Selection of Suitable Sentences for Language Learning Exercises},
abstract = {In this study we investigated second and foreign language (L2) sentence
readability, an area little explored so far in the case of several languages, including
Swedish. The outcome of our research consists of two methods for sentence selection
from native language corpora based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
machine learning (ML) techniques. The two approaches have been made available
online within Lärka, an Intelligent CALL (ICALL) platform offering activities
for language learners and students of linguistics. Such an automatic selection
of suitable sentences can be valuable for L2 teachers during the creation of new
teaching materials, for L2 students who look for additional self-study exercises as
well as for lexicographers in search of example sentences to illustrate the meaning
of a vocabulary item. Members from all these potential user groups evaluated our
methods and found the majority of the sentences selected suitable for L2 learning
purposes.},
booktitle = {20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future. 2013 EUROCALL Conference, 11th to 14th September 2013 Évora, Portugal, Proceedings.},
author = {Pilán, Ildikó and Volodina, Elena and Johansson, Richard},
year = {2013},
ISBN = {978-1-908416-12-4},
pages = {218--225},
}