This article describes a set of question-answer drills for language learning for a richly inflected language. The drills have been in actual use for some time. They allow for free input and make use of a constraint-grammar-based system, which anticipates a number of grammatical errors and common misspellings and gives certain response types. The interactions between student and computer are rec...

Since its debut in the field of education nearly three decades ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been considered as a powerful tool to facilitate new paradigms for instructional design and innovative educational practice form intelligent tutoring systems, chatbots, teaching robots adaptive learning systems among others. Recent technological advances adjacent areas natural language processin...

This paper addresses an innovative approach to computer assisted learning of foreign language terminology which involves supporting not only foreign language learning focused on specific terminology but also the enhancement of conceptual knowledge in the subject area. ITELS an intelligent tutoring system aimed at helping Bulgarians to learn English terminology in a particular subject area exemp...

Computers have played a significant role in second language learning as they can offer different types of language activities and provide learners with immediate and appropriate feedbacks. In ICALL systems, learning is activated by focusing the learner's attention to the correct form and comparing it to the wrong one. Feedback offers an explicit explanation of the mistakes made by the student. ...

This article focuses on the use of natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate second language learning within the context of academic English. It describes a full cycle of educational software development, from needs analysis to software testing. Two studies are included: 1) the needs analysis conducted to develop the Intelligent Sentence Writing Tutor (ISWT) which diagnoses and at request...

1 Background and objectives of the project 1.1 Background The most prevalent forms of information technology in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) applications are email, multimedia and computerised multiple-choice test forms. Until recently, the contribution of language technology (LT) to CALL has been next to nonexistent, although there is now a growing amount of work in the LT commun...

The dissertation starts with an analysis of the requirements for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning systems (ICALL), which partially depend on didactic aspects of foreign language teaching. Based on this a type of exercise can be identified, that on the one hand allows the learner to enter free formed input supporting the so called communicative competence as a major didactic goal ...

As is immediately clear from its name, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is a field in which computers and language play key roles. To conclude from this that CALL would be a prominent area of computational linguistics, however, would be hugely mistaken. Handbooks and journals of computational linguistics, including this one, do not usually have articles on CALL. Nerbonne (2003) is a r...