Audiovisual descriptors for a linguistic educational engine

Veronica Scurtu, Vi Dai Ho, Marius Preda, Catherine Dang

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Abstract

The media consumption has become more individualized and customized due to the development of digital media and of more efficient portable devices. Among other fields, linguistic learning may benefit greatly from this trend if new types of content are created, specifically for the requirements of this new generation of learners, suitable for individual usage, portable, customized, flexible, interactive and entertaining. In this paper we present a solution that has its roots in the Edutainment (Education and entertainment) field and consists in automatically generating language comprehension quizzes based on foreign-language audiovisual content (TV series, documentaries, news). The proposed approach turns any foreign-language video into a true interactive teaching material, by combining different fields of expertise, such as video analysis and meta-data extraction, information search and automatic language processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2011 5th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE 2011
Pages107-112
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 5th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE 2011 - Loutraki, Greece
Duration: 28 Jun 201130 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2011 5th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE 2011

Conference

Conference2011 5th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE 2011
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityLoutraki
Period28/06/1130/06/11

Keywords

  • Education
  • English as a Second Language (ESL)
  • Interactivity
  • MPEG-7 descriptors
  • Multimedia content
  • Q/A system
  • Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
  • Semantic analysis

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