<i>Sorry, what was your name again</i>, or how to overcome the <i>tip-of-the tongue problem</i> with the help of a computer?

Zock, Michael

doi:10.3115/1118735.1118753

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“…Pollock and Zamora (1984) also suggest using an omission key based on the frequency of letter omission. Anacodes (Zock, 2002) are formed by the letters composing the word in alphabetical order. Damerau (1964) uses a Boolean register of 28 positions (one for each letter, one for numbers and one for other symbols).…”

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FipsOrtho: A spell checker for learners of French

L'haire

2007

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This paper presents FipsOrtho, a spell checker targeted at learners of French, and a corpus of learners’ errors which has been gathered to test the system and to get a sample of specific language learners’ errors. Spell checkers are a standard feature of many software products, however they are not designed for specific language learners’ errors. After a brief review of the state of the art, we describe the system’s architecture and interfaces. Then we describe our error typology and detail the techniques used to retrieve words and to order proposals appropriately: alphacode, phoneticization, ad-hoc, capitalization, apostrophe, and word separation error methods. Proposals are sorted by a score depending on the method(s) used to retrieve them, on the expected lexical category, gender, number and person, and on the string proximity with the unknown word. Then the test results are presented: a list of individual words containing errors was submitted to the alphacode and phoneticization methods; a corpus of authentic learners’ errors was gathered and analyzed. Finally we conclude the paper with some limitations of the system and ideas for future research.

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FipsOrtho: A spell checker for learners of French

L'haire

2007

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“…Common to almost all the automatically derived semantic networks is the problem of the unknown relation between items as opposed to manually constructed networks. On the one hand a typed relation provides additional information for a user about two connected nodes but on the other hand it seems questionable if a known relation would really help to actually infer the meaning of a connected node (contrary to Zock (2002)).…”

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“…The ideas presented here were developed in preparation of a project at the University of Osnabrück. Zock (2002) proposes the use of only one type of information structure in his network, namely a type of semantic information. There are, however, a number of other types of information structures that may also be relevant for a user.…”

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Language resources for a network-based dictionary

Reuer

2004

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries - ElectricDict '04

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In order to facilitate the use of a dictionary for language production and language learning we propose the construction of a new network-based electronic dictionary along the lines of Zock (2002). However, contrary to Zock who proposes just a paradigmatic network with information about the various ways in which words are similar we would like to present several existing language resources (LRs) which will be integrated in such a network resulting in more linguistic levels than one with paradigmatically associated words. We argue that just as the mental lexicon exhibits various, possibly interwoven layers of networks, electronic LRs containing syntagmatic, morphological and phonological information need to be integrated into an associative electronic dictionary.

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“…When searching a word form (target), the dictionary user will certainly not search in the entire resource. He will rather navigate in a substantially smaller subset (Zock, 2014;Zock & Cristea, 2014). The question is, how to build this reduced space and how to support then navigation.…”

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The CogALex-IV Shared Task on the Lexical Access Problem

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Zock

2014

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex)

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The shared task of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV) was devoted to a subtask of the lexical access problem, namely multi-stimulus association. In this task, participants were supposed to determine automatically an expected response based on a number of received stimulus words. We describe here the task definition, the theoretical background, the training and test data sets, and the evaluation procedure used for ranking the participating systems. We also summarize the approaches used and present the results of the evaluation. In conclusion, the outcome of the competition are a number of systems which provide very good solutions to the problem.

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Sorry, what was your name again, or how to overcome the tip-of-the tongue problem with the help of a computer?

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

FipsOrtho: A spell checker for learners of French

FipsOrtho: A spell checker for learners of French

Language resources for a network-based dictionary

The CogALex-IV Shared Task on the Lexical Access Problem

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