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Personalized reading support for second-language web documents by collective intelligence

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Nobuyuki Shimizu,

Takashi Ninomiya,

Hiroshi NakagawaAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '10: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 51 - 60

https://doi.org/10.1145/1719970.1719978

Published: 07 February 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Novel intelligent interface eases the browsing of Web documents written in the second languages of users. It automatically predicts words unfamiliar to the user by collective intelligence and glosses them with their meaning in advance. If the prediction succeeds, the user does not need to consult a dictionary; even if it fails, the user can correct the prediction. The correction data are collected and used to improve the accuracy of further predictions. The prediction is personalized in that every user's language ability is estimated by a state-of-the-art language testing model, which is trained in a practical response time with only a small sacrifice of prediction accuracy. Evaluation results for the system in terms of prediction accuracy are encouraging.

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Personalized reading support for second-language web documents by collective intelligence
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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IUI '10: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

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DOI:10.1145/1719970

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
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Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
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Teesside University, UK
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IBM Research, China

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Ding JZhao BHuang YWang YShi Y(2023)GazeReader: Detecting Unknown Word Using Webcam for English as a Second Language (ESL) LearnersExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585790(1-7)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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