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Using Word Semantics To Assist English as a Second Language Learners
2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
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We introduce an interactive interface that aims to help English as a Second Language (ESL) students overcome language related hindrances while reading a text. The interface allows the user to find supplementary information on selected difficult words. The interface is empowered by our lexical substitution engine that provides context-based synonyms for difficult words. We also provide a practical solution for a real-world usage scenario. We demonstrate using the lexical substitution engine -as
doi:10.3115/v1/n15-3024
dblp:conf/naacl/AzabHM15
fatcat:rrsyxgxdcfcvfkxsk3tzyw2fee