magdalena wolska

mini-project topics for the project seminar "Natural Language Processing for
Computer-Assisted Language Learning" (summer semester 2011)

* resources for Allegro exercises (new scenarios, error diagnosis,
  feedback, visual enhancement, etc.)

* language resources and language learning activities for the
  Saarbruecken adventure game (Ben's)
  - template-based generation 
  - grammar activites for the game (see below)

* grammar exercises: 
  -> using corpora to acquire complex sentences for a sentence
     transformation task
  -> do the same for different target phenomena (passive, past tense,
pronouns) and different tasks (e.g. gap-filling, sentence construction,...),
could include lexical checking (does the word belong to the vocabulary of a
certain lerner level), POS-Tagging for identification of relevant
phenomena,... 
     cf. Toole & Heift Task Generator 
         Mitkov (Wolves) : generating multiple choice

* vocabulary acquisition:
  -> oral production for vocabulary acquisition (bib)
  -> vocabulary learning via visually cued (reading/listening) comprehension 
     task (bib)

* language learning with lyrics:
  -> identify relevant pos or grammatical phenomena in lyrics
     automatically find/generate paraphrases for them
  -> synonym/antonym 
  -> case, etc.