@inproceedings{4b47576b64ea48c1b1436f6b6c9ba8d3,
title = "Developing ARET: An NLP-based Educational Tool Set for Arabic Reading Enhancement",
abstract = "This paper describes a novel Arabic Reading Enhancement Tool (ARET) for classroom use, which has been built using corpus-based Natural Language Processing in combination with expert linguistic annotation. The NLP techniques include a widely used morphological analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic to provide word-level grammatical details, and a relational database index of corpus texts to provide word concordances. ARET also makes use of a commercial Arabic text-to-speech (TTS) system to add a speech layer (with male and female voices) to the Al-Kitaab language textbook resources. The system generates test questions and distractors, offering teachers and students an interesting computer-aided language learning tool. We describe the background and the motivation behind the building of ARET, presenting the various components and the method used to build the tools.",
author = "Mohamed Maamouri and Wajdi Zaghouani and Violetta Cavalli-Sforza and Dave Graff and Mike Ciul",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics; 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012 ; Conference date: 07-06-2012",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "127--135",
editor = "Joel Tetreault and Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
address = "United States",
}