Reusing a syntactic generator for CALL purposes

  • Authors:

  • Anne Vandeventer;Marie-José/e Hamel

  • Affiliations:

  • LATL, Université/ de Genè/ve, Switzerland/ e-mail: vandeventer@latl.unige.ch;UMIST, Manchester, UK

  • Venue:
  • ReCALL
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This article presents briefly the advantages and disadvantages of reusing natural language processing (NLP) tools in the CALL context. The issue is addressed through the description of GBGen, a sentence generation system. The abstract semantic representation used as input for the generator is described, as well as the actual generation process, from a deep structure to a grammatical sentence through transformations and the application of morphology. The possible didactic value of such a tool is then evaluated and the outline of a CALL scenario given. Finally, proposed adaptations of the generator for the CALL context are discussed.