SkELL: Web Interface for English Language Learning

• Authors: BAISA Vít; SUCHOMEL Vít
• Year of publication: 2014
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: Eighth Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Web: https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2014/12.pdf
• Field: Informatics
• Keywords: Sketch Engine; concordance; thesaurus; word sketch; language learning; English language; corpus
• Description: We present a new web interface for English language learning: SkELL. The name stands for Sketch Engine for Language Learning and is aimed at students and teachers of English language. We describe SkELL features and the processing of corpus data which is fundamental for SkELL: spam free, high quality texts from various domains including diverse text types covering majority of English language phenomena.

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