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Bédi, Branislav; Bernharðsson, Haraldur; Chua, Cathy; Guðmarsdóttir, Birgitta Björg; Habibi, Hanieh; Rayner, Manny – Research-publishing.net, 2020
We describe how the open-source Learning and Reading Assistant (LARA) platform was used to convert a classic Old Norse text, the "Völuspá," into an interactive online form. The LARA version includes high-quality recorded audio, translations, notes on key words and phrases, an automatically generated concordance, and links to other online…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Indo European Languages, Audio Equipment, Translation
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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