Embarrassed or Awkward? Ranking Emotion Synonyms for ESL Learners' Appropriate Wording

ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms

In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The synonyms come from an existing lexical networ…

Automatically Suggesting Example Sentences of Near-Synonyms for Language Learners

In this paper, we propose GiveMeExample that ranks example sentences according to their capacity of demonstrating the differences among English and Chinese near-synonyms for language learners. The difficulty of the examp…

An Experiment on Implicitly Crowdsourcing Expert Knowledge about Romanian Synonyms from Language Learners

Multimodal Emotion Recognition by Fusing Video Semantic in MOOC Learning Scenarios

In the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) learning scenario, the semantic information of instructional videos has a crucial impact on learners' emotional state. Learners mainly acquire knowledge by watching instructional…

Assessing the Helpfulness of Learning Materials with Inference-Based Learner-Like Agent

Many English-as-a-second language learners have trouble using near-synonym words (e.g., small vs.little; briefly vs.shortly) correctly, and often look for example sentences to learn how two nearly synonymous terms differ…