Application of Automatic Thesaurus Extraction for Computer Generation of Vocabulary Questions

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 65-68

  Heilman, Michael ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic thesaurus extraction; computer assisted language learning; Word Associates Test

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; THESAURI;

AUTOMATIC THESAURUS EXTRACTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; COMPUTER GENERATED; COMPUTER GENERATION; EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; RELATED WORD; THESAURUS EXTRACTION; WORD ASSOCIATE TEST;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 85096696810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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