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Learning Usage of English KWICly with WebLEAP/DSR Takashi Yamanoue Kagoshima University, Japan Toshiro Minami Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences & Kyushu University, Japan Ian Ruxton Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Wataru Sakurai University of Tsukuba, Japan ICITA2004@Harbin(04.01.08-11)
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Contents I. Motivation (Introduction) II. WebLEAP/DSR: A New implementation of WebLEAP III. Examples and Experiments for Evaluation IV. Related Work V. Concluding Remarks
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Difficulties in writing in English Is it really used? ? ? Spelling → spell checker Grammar → grammar checker Usage → Corpus Linguistic Tools I. Motivation
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Problems of Ordinary Corpus Linguistic Tools Time-consuming Needs hard work in order to make a good corpus Copyright problem (often) Outdated from the beginning Tools are mainly for experts Difficult to use for ordinary learners
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A Solution Use of “ Web-Corpus ” = Using Web Documents as a Corpus Maintenance free: Exists as it is Always new, reflects current status of languages A lot of applications/services are available on the Internet
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WebLEAP Shows Frequencies of phrases in the given sentence graphically Using a search engine. New Features KWIC (Key Word In Context) Domain Specification
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WebLEAP
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II. WebLEAP/DSR: A New implementation of WebLEAP DSR: Distributed System Recorder A Computer Assisted Teaching System, … Recording and replaying every operation. Draw, Programming, Web, WebLEAP, … WebLEAP Basic: Frequencies Graphically New(using Google Web APIs): KWIC Domain Specification
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WebLEAP Window Iput, setting, control, …
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Draw window, frequencies
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KWIC (Key Word In Context) window
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Web browser Window
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Setting Window, for domain specification, …
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Estimating the Appropriate Preposition Comparing English: UK vs. US III. Examples and Experiments for Evaluation
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(1) Estimating the Appropriate Preposition Estimating the preposition for “ your own risk ”
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Comparing English: UK vs. US English sentence in a specific English dialect.
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Satoh ’ s system … webcorpus SUIKO … detects wrong sentences Applications using Google Web APIs DSR: Distributed System Recorder A Benchmarking tool for distributed systems. A Computer Assisted Teaching system P2P, reliable multicast, … IV. Related Work
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WebLEAP: A tool for helping with writing. Popularities of expressions. Frequencies from a Search engine. KWIC How the expression is used. Filling the lacking word. Domain specification WebLEAP/DSR An application of DSR. V. Concluding Remarks
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Precision Discrimination of Native speakers to non native speakers. Differences from region to region Collaborative Writing Further Research Topics
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Acknowledgement Google.com
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Thank you for Listening!
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