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St-Jacques, Claude; Barriere, Caroline – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
This research aims at promoting the usage of an online children's dictionary within a context of reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. Inspired by document retrieval approaches developed in the area of information retrieval (IR) research, we adapt a particular IR strategy, based on fuzzy logic, to a search in the electronic dictionary.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Information Retrieval, Inferences, Reading Comprehension