The use of NLP tools for Basque in a multiple user CALL environment and its feedback

Itziar Aldabe (1) , Bertol Arrieta (1) , Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (1) , Montse Maritxalar (1) , Ianire Niebla (1) , Maite Oronoz (1) , Larraitz L. Uria (1)

1 Department of Computer Languages and Systems

In this article, we present a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environment for Basque. The environment has different aims: on the one hand, to offer the users (teachers, learners and computational linguists) different tools and language resources to clarify the linguistic doubts they might have about the language, and on the other hand, to store information about language learners, deviations and errors as the basis for further studies in CALL and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The environment is composed of a workbench (Lentillak), two web applications (Erreus and Irakazi), several NLP tools and two databases (Errors and Deviations), and it takes in learner corpora as well as native corpora. In addition, we present the experiment we have carried out to evaluate the usefulness of the NLP tools.

Keywords: computer assisted language learning (CALL); natural language processing (NLP); web applications

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Itziar Aldabe, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar, Ianire Niebla, et al.. The use of NLP tools for Basque in a multiple user CALL environment and its feedback. The 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2006). April 10-13, 2006. Leuven (Belgium), 2006, Leuven, Belgium. pp.815-824. ⟨hal-00197396⟩