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This project aims to improve performance of both language learners and automated natural language processing systems by pairing them with each other in an interactive manner. The project will study the co-training and human computing paradigm under two scenarios: (1) Chinese language learning via interactive tests; and (2) Chinese language learning via translation assistance.
Software
Dr Kan Min-Yen's Language Learning in iPhone, Facebook & Firefox Extension (LiFE project) has developed a Firefox extension, the DiCE translator, to help English and Chinese language learners look up the most likely meaning of words and characters in context, right in the Firefox web browser. It has already been downloaded and used by hundreds of people worldwide since its inception in 2009.
Project Related Publications
2009
Fan Yang and Jun Zhao (2009). A Chinese-English Organization Name Translation System Using Heuristic Web Mining and Asymmetric Alignment. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, August 2009.
Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li, and Philip Resnik (2009). Topological Ordering of Function Words in Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, August 2009. acl-ijcnlp_phrase.pdf