Hindi Wordnet for Language Teaching: Experiences and Lessons Learnt

Hanumant Redkar, Rajita Shukla, Sandhya Singh, Jaya Saraswati, Laxmi Kashyap, Diptesh Kanojia, Preethi Jyothi, Malhar Kulkarni, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Abstract
This paper reports the work related to making Hindi Wordnet1 available as a digital resource for language learning and teaching, and the experiences and lessons that were learnt during the process. The language data of the Hindi Wordnet has been suitably modified and enhanced to make it into a language learning aid. This aid is based on modern pedagogical axioms and is aligned to the learning objectives of the syllabi of the school education in India. To make it into a comprehensive language tool, grammatical information has also been encoded, as far as these can be marked on the lexical items. The delivery of information is multi-layered, multi-sensory and is available across multiple digital platforms. The front end has been designed to offer an eye-catching user-friendly interface which is suitable for learners starting from age six onward. Preliminary testing of the tool has been done and it has been modified as per the feedbacks that were received. Above all, the entire exercise has offered gainful insights into learning based on associative networks and how knowledge based on such networks can be made available to modern learners.
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2018.gwc-1.37
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Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference
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January
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2018
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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Francis Bond, Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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314–323
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Hanumant Redkar, Rajita Shukla, Sandhya Singh, Jaya Saraswati, Laxmi Kashyap, Diptesh Kanojia, Preethi Jyothi, Malhar Kulkarni, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2018. Hindi Wordnet for Language Teaching: Experiences and Lessons Learnt. In Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 314–323, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Global Wordnet Association.
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