A Computational Environment For Language Acquisition: King Alfred

Presented by:  Computer Science Faculty Candidate, Prof. Lisa Michaud
Date:  Friday, March 14, 2008
Time:  3:00 pm Alden Hall
Location:  Alden 101

Lecture Abstract:

Students can study Anglo-Saxon (Old) English with the help of King Alfred, a tutoring environment that applies the benefits of a computational environment to the age-old task of translating phrases from an ancient language. King Alfred efficiently models the feature-rich source language and tracks the user’s successes and failures in order to provide feedback, guiding self-reflection and further study. Ongoing work explores how King Alfred can effectively give feedback to specific translation errors through a pedagogically-motivated automated analysis.

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