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Bédi, Branislav; Butterweck, Matt; Chua, Cathy; Gerlach, Johanna; Guðmarsdóttir, Birgitta Björg; Habibi, Hanieh; Jónsson, Bjartur Örn; Rayner, Manny; Vigfússon, Sigurður – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Learning and Reading Assistant (LARA) is an open source platform that enables conversion of plain texts into an interactive multimedia form designed to support second- and foreign-language (L2) learners. In this workshop, we illustrate the open source aspects using collaborative work carried out during a six-week summer project at the Árni…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Multimedia Materials, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Manny – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper presents a brief overview of LARA (Learning And Reading Assistant), an open source online tool that has been under development since summer 2018. LARA currently contains a corpus of about 25 texts in ten languages and a crowdsourcing model used to expand the corpus. The central goal is to provide support for improving second language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Reading Comprehension