Adding word sense awareness to computer-assisted language learning methods : a tailor-made word sense disambiguation method for Spanish as a foreign language
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- Jasper Degraeuwe (UGent) , Patrick Goethals (UGent) and Arda Tezcan (UGent)
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- Word sense awareness is a feature which has not yet been implemented in most Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments or in computer-readable resources for pedagogical purposes such as graded word lists. The current study aims to contribute to filling this gap by presenting a word sense disambiguation (WSD) method1 which relies on a tailor-made sense inventory, exploits readily available large language models, and only requires a limited number of prototypical examples sentences as manually curated data. The methodology is evaluated on a set of 74 lexically ambiguous items, with a Spanish language for specific purposes course as the target setting. With weighted F1 scores up to 0.8995, the WSD method shows potential to be applied in real-life CALL scenarios.
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- natural language processing, word sense disambiguation, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Spanish as a foreign language
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01K1V3S47J9BZV0B6GVBTPV4Y2
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- Degraeuwe, Jasper, et al. “Adding Word Sense Awareness to Computer-Assisted Language Learning Methods : A Tailor-Made Word Sense Disambiguation Method for Spanish as a Foreign Language.” REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS, vol. 20, 2025, pp. 1–16, doi:10.4995/rlyla.2025.20780.
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- Degraeuwe, J., Goethals, P., & Tezcan, A. (2025). Adding word sense awareness to computer-assisted language learning methods : a tailor-made word sense disambiguation method for Spanish as a foreign language. REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS, 20, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2025.20780
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- Degraeuwe, Jasper, Patrick Goethals, and Arda Tezcan. 2025. “Adding Word Sense Awareness to Computer-Assisted Language Learning Methods : A Tailor-Made Word Sense Disambiguation Method for Spanish as a Foreign Language.” REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS 20: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2025.20780.
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- Degraeuwe, Jasper, Patrick Goethals, and Arda Tezcan. 2025. “Adding Word Sense Awareness to Computer-Assisted Language Learning Methods : A Tailor-Made Word Sense Disambiguation Method for Spanish as a Foreign Language.” REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS 20: 1–16. doi:10.4995/rlyla.2025.20780.
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- 1.Degraeuwe J, Goethals P, Tezcan A. Adding word sense awareness to computer-assisted language learning methods : a tailor-made word sense disambiguation method for Spanish as a foreign language. REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS. 2025;20:1–16.
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- [1]J. Degraeuwe, P. Goethals, and A. Tezcan, “Adding word sense awareness to computer-assisted language learning methods : a tailor-made word sense disambiguation method for Spanish as a foreign language,” REVISTA DE LINGUISTICA Y LENGUAS APLICADAS, vol. 20, pp. 1–16, 2025.
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