Gilbert, Nikhil and Keet, C. Maria (2018) Automating question generation and marking of language learning exercises for isiZulu, Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Controlled Natural language (CNL'18)., 27-28 August 2018, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 304, 31-40, IOS Press.
![[img]](http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
CALLplatformNLGcrc.pdf Download (458kB) |
Abstract
Increase in isiZulu language learning is hampered by the predominantly manual approach to creating and marking homework and test exercises. Extant computer-assisted language learning platforms cannot handle the intricacies of agglutination in isiZulu and related languages. We seek to address this by designing a controlled natural language-based exercise generator and marker for isiZulu. This consists of question and answer sentence templates for exercise types, reusable algorithm snippets as grammar library, a small corpus of words and sentences to be used by the system, a constrained sentence generator to combine the right type of words, and finally the exercise creation and automated marking system. The preliminary evaluation shows encouraging results.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | isiZulu, Natural language generation, eLearning |
| Subjects: | Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education Applied computing > Document management and text processing Software and its engineering |
| Alternate Locations: | http://www.meteck.org/files/CNL18CALLplatformZulu.pdf, http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/49767 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2018 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:31 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1272 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |