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Vocabulary Building Support system

by Converting Web pages

Hiroki Yoshioka, Taro Yabuki and Hiroshi Sakuta

Department of Integrated Information Technology,College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University{yabuki,sakuta}@it.aoyama.ac.jp, yoshioka@idea.it.aoyama.ac.jp

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College of Literature (English / French / Japanese / History)

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Self Learning Solution• Diversified specialized fields>less teachers• Knowledge base for advanced courses• Step for Terminology in every field>share

knowledge for communication• Test/Quiz based evaluation system• Web-based system• Large amount of problem set• Automatic generation of sophisticated problems

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Conventional on line Systems in Japan for Vocabulary Building of English

P-Study Systemhttp://www.takke.jp/http://cocet.code.u-air.ac.jp/index.html

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Disadvantage of conventional systems

１． Load of problem editors

2 ． No practical system for context-oriented self learning system

Sent by system

Sent by hardcopies

Response

Response

Edit Problems

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Specifications for supposed system

Required system specifications Automatic generating facility for problem setProblems inferring meaning of target words from

context

Fundamental technologyConverting arbitrary Web contents into Fill-in-the-

blank question for users

Word List

Application Server

Database

Web Page converted in Fill-in-the-blank question

InternetLearner

Select 　Word Set

Automatic Scoring

Compile Learning Results

Feedback from Learning History

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Example for multi lingual style

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Generation of target word set

Target word set

Word ListAssign

target words

Learning History

Forgetting function by Ebbinghaus

Collected by users or teachers

Select for a step

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Forgetting curve by Ebbinghaus

By Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

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Conclusions

Automatic generation of problems, grading and feedback to learners reducing loads of working by teachers

Implementation of context-based learning for vocabulary building

Practical use of Web contents for learning Expected applications for other languages

and fields