Word sense disambiguation for vocabulary learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5091 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 500-509

  Kulkarni, Anagha ^a   Heilman, Michael ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Assisted Language Learning; English as a Second Language; Vocabulary Learning; Word Sense Disambiguation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; LEARNING OUTCOME; LEXICAL AMBIGUITY; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SUPPORT LEARNING; VOCABULARY LEARNING; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70349863111     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69132-7_53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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