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TheOpen-SourceFLAXLanguageSystem
AlannahFitzgeraldShaoqunWuIanH.WiAenXiaofengYu
TheeBookofFLAX
“FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) is both a vision and a tool that you can use for language learning. The Web contains innumerable language activities, quizzes, and games, but they are fixed: the activities are cast in stone and the material is chosen by others. Our vision is to put the control back where it belongs, in the hands of teachers and learners.”
WHOAREWEINTHISFLAXRESEARCH&DEVELOPMENTCOLLABORATION?
FLAXLanguageatWaikatoUniversity
h8p://flax.nzdl.orgFLAXimagebypermissionofnon-commercialreusebyJaneGalloway
FLAXLanguageProjectattheGreenstoneDigitalLibraryLab,
WaikatoUniversityNZ
ProfessorIanWiAenFLAXProjectLead
DrShaoqunWuFLAXProjectLeadResearcher&Developer
ResearchonOpenFLAXCollecSons
hAp://oerresearchhub.org/
AlannahFitzgeraldOpenFellowwithOERRHFLAXLanguage&OpenEducaSonResearcher
OPENSOURCELANGUAGETOOLSDEVELOPMENT
FLAX Digital Library
Collections
Collocations database
Glossary
Open Educational Resources
Google-esqueInterfaceDesigns
Designedforthenon-expertcorpususer,namely:learners,teachers,subjectacademics,instrucSonaldesignersandlanguageresourcedevelopers.
IntroducingtheWikipediaMinerToolkit(Milne&WiAen,2013)
BuildingInteracSvityintoFLAXLanguageCollecSons
FLAXAcSviSesConSnued
FreeAndroidApps
FLAXAcrossPla`orms• FLAXWebsiteflax.nzdl.orgforhosSngopenonlinelanguagecollecSons• BuildingdirectlyontotheWebwithOER
• FLAXmulSlingualopen-sourcesobwarefordownload• SetupyourownFLAXserveronlineor;• BuildcollecSonsofflineforuseonyourPC
• FLAXAndroidappfordownload• Interactwithgame-basedFLAXcollecSonswhileonthego
• FLAXforMOODLEplug-infordownload• FLAXforMOOCPla`orms?• FLAXinconjuncSonwithtranslaSontechnologies?
DOMAIN-SPECIFICOPENLANGUAGECOLLECTIONSBUILDING
TheeBookofFLAX“FLAXenablesteacherstobuildbespokelibrariesveryeasily.Itisbuiltuponpowerfuldigitallibrarytechnology,andprovidesaccesstovastlinguisScresourcescontainingcountlessexamplesofactual,authenSc,usageincontemporarytext.ButteacherscanalsobuildcollecVonsusingtheirownmaterial,focusingonlanguagelearninginaparVculardomain(e.g.,business,law)ormoVvaVngstudentsbyusingtextfromaparVcularcontext(e.g.,countryorregion,commoninterests).”
WorkingwithFullTexts
WikifyYourCollecSons
Domain-specificCollocaSons
WefocusonlexicalcollocaSonswithnoun-basedstructuresbecausetheyarethemostsalientandimportantpaAernsindomain-specifictext.CollocaSonsfromtheEnglishCommonLawMOOC:• verb+noun e.g.abolishjudicialreview• noun+noun e.g.precedentcase• adjecSve+noun e.g.commonlaw• noun+of+noun e.g.courtofappeal
LexicalBundles“Lexical bundles” are mulS-word sequences with disSncSvesyntacScpaAernsanddiscoursefuncSonsthatarecommonlyused in academic prose (Biber& Barbieri, 2007; Biber et al,2003,2004).BundlesfromBriSshLawReportCorpus(BLaRC):• nounphrase+of e.g.Inthecourseofhis• preposiSonalphrase+ofe.g.onthepartofthe• it+verb/adjecSvephrasee.g.itiscommongroundthat• be+noun/adjecSvephrasee.g.betakenintoaccountin• verbphrase+thate.g.Thereisnodoubtthat
LexicalBundles
CollocaSonsWithinCollecSons
LinkingtotheFLAXLearningCollocaSonsCollecSon(Wikipedia,BNC,BAWE)
GoodOl’Part-Of-SpeechTagging
References• Biber,D.,Conrad,S.,&Cortes,V.(2003).Lexicalbundlesin
speechandwriSng:aniniSaltaxonomy.InA.Wilson,P.Rayson,&T.McEnery(Eds.),Corpuslinguis<csbythelune:AfestschribforGeoffreyLeech(pp.71–92).Frankfurt/Main:PeterLang.
• Biber,D.,Conrad,S.,&Cortes,V.(2004).Ifyoulookat...:lexicalbundlesinuniversityteachingandtextbooks.AppliedLinguis<cs,25,371–405.Biber,D.(2006).UniversityLanguage,Acorpus-basedstudyofspokenandwriEenregisters.JohnBenjamins,Amsterdam.
• Biber,D.,BarbieriF.(2007).LexicalbundlesinuniversityspokenandwriAenregisters.EnglishforSpecificPurpose,26,263–286.
• Milne,D.&WiAen,I.H.(2013).Anopen-sourcetoolkitforminingWikipedia.Ar<ficialIntelligence,194,222-239.
LookOutforFLAXinAprilwithRussellStannard’s-TeacherTrainingVideos
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com
ThankYou
FLAXLanguageProject&SobwareDownloads:hAp://flax.nzdl.org/TheHow-toeBookofFLAX:
hAp://flax-doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdfFLAXGame-basedAppsforAndroid:
hAps://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FLAX%20TEAM&hl=en
AlannahFitzgerald:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
Xiaofeng(Alex)Yu:[email protected]
OERResearchHub:hAp://oerresearchhub.org/TOETOETechnologyforOpenEnglishBlog:www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Slideshare:hAp://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/TwiAer:@AlannahFitz