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Developing Flashcards for Learning Icelandic

Xindan Xu

Anton Karl Ingason

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Published in: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021)

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 177:5, p. 55-61

NEALT Proceedings Series 47:5, p. 55-61

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Published: 2021-05-21

ISBN: 978-91-7929-625-4

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper describes the process of developing flashcards for the most frequently used words in Icelandic. The process involves utilising currently available open-source online databases, the Tagged Icelandic Corpus, MÍM, and the Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection, BÍN, to extract a list of the most frequently used words, their part-of-speech tags, and inflectional forms. This was combined with newly developed language technology tools for Icelandic to generate phonetic and audio transcriptions of the words. The final product is a combination of printable flashcards and digital flashcards which are easily accessible through smart devices.

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flashcards, semi-automatic learning materials, spaced repetition, Anki, Icelandic, CALL

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