TY - GEN
T1 - Reading Assistance through LARA, the learning and Reading Assistant
AU - Akhlaghi, Elham
AU - Auðunardóttir, Ingibjörg Iða
AU - Bédi, Branislav
AU - Beedar , Hakeem
AU - Berthelsen, Harald
AU - Chua, Cathy
AU - Cucchiarini, Catia
AU - Eyjólfsson, Brynjarr
AU - Ivanova, Nedelina
AU - Maizonniaux, Christele
AU - Ní Chiaráin, Neasa
AU - Rayner, Manny
AU - Sloan, John
AU - Vigfús, Sigurður
AU - Zuckermann, Ghil’ad
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - We present an overview of LARA, the Learning And Reading Assistant, an open source platform for easy creation and use of multimedia annotated texts designed to support the improvement of reading skills. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first, we give a brief summary of LARA’s processing. In the second, we describe some generic functionality specially relevant for reading assistance: support for phonetically annotated texts, support for image-based texts, and integrated production of text-to-speech (TTS) generated audio. In the third, we outline some of the larger projects so far carried out with LARA, involving development of content for learning second and foreign (L2) languages such as Icelandic, Farsi, Irish, Old Norse and the Australian Aboriginal language Barngarla, where the issues involved overlap with those that arise when trying to help students improve first-language (L1) reading skills. All software and almost all content is freely available
AB - We present an overview of LARA, the Learning And Reading Assistant, an open source platform for easy creation and use of multimedia annotated texts designed to support the improvement of reading skills. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first, we give a brief summary of LARA’s processing. In the second, we describe some generic functionality specially relevant for reading assistance: support for phonetically annotated texts, support for image-based texts, and integrated production of text-to-speech (TTS) generated audio. In the third, we outline some of the larger projects so far carried out with LARA, involving development of content for learning second and foreign (L2) languages such as Icelandic, Farsi, Irish, Old Norse and the Australian Aboriginal language Barngarla, where the issues involved overlap with those that arise when trying to help students improve first-language (L1) reading skills. All software and almost all content is freely available
KW - CALL
KW - evaluation
KW - open source
KW - reading
KW - multimodality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145874756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://cental.uclouvain.be/readi2022/programme.html
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties, READI 2022 - collocated with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Tools and Resources with REAding DIfficulties (READI)
A2 - Wilkens, Rodrigo
A2 - Alfter, David
A2 - Cardon, Rémi
A2 - Gala, Núria
PB - European Language Resources Association
CY - Paris, France
T2 - Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Y2 - 20 June 2022 through 25 June 2022
ER -