Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- C16-2003
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editor:
- Hideo Watanabe
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11–15
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-2003
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- John Lee, Chun Yin Lam, and Shu Jiang. 2016. A Reading Environment for Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 11–15, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Reading Environment for Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (Lee et al., COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/C16-2003.pdf