WordSets: Finding Lexically Similar Words for Second Language Acquisition
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چکیده
We introduce a method of expanding a multiple-words input by a short list of similar words in a manner suitable for Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Similarity for that purpose is determined based on two aspects, semantic relations and typicality. Finding words with similar typicality is particularly important for SLA tasks. The study incorporates, and shows the advantage of a recently introduced distance measure that uses the Web as its corpus. The value of the proposed method is demonstrated by empirical experiments on word lists provided by teachers.
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