NDLI: Building a phonics engine for automated text guidance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lukes, D. Litsas, C.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece (Litsas, C.) \|\| Res., Dev. & Policy, Dyslexia Action, Egham, UK (Lukes, D.)
Abstract	This paper describes the results of work done to develop an automated guidance system for readers with dyslexia and related literacy difficulties. The system was developed to address the specific needs of dyslexic readers and teachers providing support to them in the analysis of words into their phonic components. This includes division into syllables both in spoken and written form, mapping of graphemes to phonemes and highlighting of common spelling patterns. Despite a large volume of NLP resources being available, we could identify no system that would provide this level of analysis. Such system is necessary to advance the field of computer-assisted literacy support. For instance, by developing open-world games not limited to pre-set lists of words or a reader application that can highlight phonic features of any word. In order to provide such guidance we designed an annotated dictionary, list of phonic features with associated look up routines and dictionary annotation algorithms. The resulting phonics engine was then used to power a reader application and a phonic games system developed as part of iLearnRW. We make recommendations for further directions in research and development. The research and development described in this paper was conducted as part of the EU FP7 ICT project iLearnRW - Integrated Intelligent Learning Environment for Reading and Writing (318803).
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	552322
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467393119
DOI	10.1109/IISA.2015.7388010
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-07-06
Publisher Place	Greece
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context Dictionaries Mobile technology Readability Buildings Computer-aided instruction Complexity theory Engines Games Phonics Speech Dyslexia Natural language processing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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