Centre for Computational Linguistics: Projects

A.D.A.M. & E.V.E. - Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation and Extensible Variety of Exercises

1979 - 1982
Fonds voor Collectief Fundamenteel Onderzoek
Instituut voor Levende Talen & Centrum voor de Aggregatie
L.K. Engels, M. Goethals & T. Leenders

A.D.A.M. & E.V.E. is a software package for foreign language teachers and learners, especially at the higher levels of proficiency. The system generates a wide range of practice materials from a corpus of authentic texts; this generation is steered by a programme which matches the words in the texts with frequency lists of word clusters specifically prepared for teaching use, on the basis of large text corpora and drawing on a number of databases (morphology, sample sentences, dictionary definitions).

This frequency list, the Leuven English Teaching Vocabulary-list combines word frequency, word clustering, familiarity and coverage into four degrees of difficulty (``sluices'') of ``core vocabulary'' and a category of ``outsiders''. The user can fill up to five empty ``sluices'' on the basis of the automatic analysis. The L.E.T.-list is based on three one million word corpora.

The programme was designed for IBM-compatible PCs. The authoring program produces learner materials on paper or on diskette. It is now available for English and Dutch, and soon for French.

A.D.A.M. & E.V.E. is distributed by CoMet Verlag für Unterrichtsoftware (Duisburg) and Oxford University Press. In the event of any queries, please contact:

Jane Caldwell
Electronic Publishing
Oxford University Press
Walton Street
Oxford OX2 6DP
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: +44-865-267.979
It is still being optimised by the authors, in collaboration with U. Vanermen, L. Baten and others.

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