tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Language Resources in an Intelligent Tutoring System for French"

This paper presents a project that investigates to what extent computational linguistic methods and tools used at GETA for machine translation can be used to i m p l e m e n t n o v e l f u n c t i o n a l i t i e s in intelligent c o m p u t e r assisted language learning. Our intelligent tutoring system project is still in its early phases. The learner module is based on an empirical study of French as used by Acadian e l e m e n. | Using Language Resources in an Intelligent Tutoring System for French Chadia Moghrabi Department d informatique Universite de Moncton Moncton NB El A 3E9 Canada moghrac@ On sabbatical leave at GETA-CLIPS Grenoble France for 1997-1998. Abstract This paper presents a project that investigates to what extent computational linguistic methods and tools used at GETA for machine translation can be used to implement novel functionalities in intelligent computer assisted language learning. Our intelligent tutoring system project is still in its early phases. The learner module is based on an empirical study of French as used by Acadian elementary students living in New-Brunswick Canada. Additionally we are studying the state of the art of systems using Artificial Intelligence techniques as well as NLP resources and or methodologies for teaching language especially for bilingual and minority groups. Introduction The project that we have started is intended for the minority French speaking Acadian community living in Atlantic Canada. In many families parents used to go to English schools and sometimes cannot adequately help their children in their school work. Children who now go to French schools often switch back to English for their leisure activities because of the scarcity of options open to them. Many of these children use English syntax as well as borrowed vocabulary quite frequently. In brief this setting of language learning is not that of a typical native speaker. We begin our presentation with a literature review of related work in Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITS particularly on Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL and Intelligent CALL followed by the principles that this community is now expecting from system builders. In the following sections we summarize an empirical study that helped US define the learner model. Then in the last section we propose the system s general architecture and an overview some of its activities particularly those that .