GLOSSER-RuG: in support of reading
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
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NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
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ACLdemo '05 Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions
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NAACL-Demonstrations '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Demonstration Session
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To support vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension in a second language, we have developed a system to display sense-appropriate examples to learners for difficult words. We describe the construction of the system, incorporating word sense disambiguation, and an experiment we conducted testing it on a group of 60 learners of English as a second language (ESL). We show that sense-specific information in an intelligent reading system helps learners in their vocabulary acquisition, even if the sense information contains some noise from automatic processing. We also show that it helps learners, to some extent, with their reading comprehension.