An Analysis and Visualization Tool for Case Study Learning of Linguistic Concepts

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Benjamin Meyers, Emily Prud’hommeaux


Abstract
We present an educational tool that integrates computational linguistics resources for use in non-technical undergraduate language science courses. By using the tool in conjunction with evidence-driven pedagogical case studies, we strive to provide opportunities for students to gain an understanding of linguistic concepts and analysis through the lens of realistic problems in feasible ways. Case studies tend to be used in legal, business, and health education contexts, but less in the teaching and learning of linguistics. The approach introduced also has potential to encourage students across training backgrounds to continue on to computational language analysis coursework.
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D17-2003
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Lucia Specia, Matt Post, Michael Paul
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
13–18
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-2003
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-2003
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Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Benjamin Meyers, and Emily Prud’hommeaux. 2017. An Analysis and Visualization Tool for Case Study Learning of Linguistic Concepts. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 13–18, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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An Analysis and Visualization Tool for Case Study Learning of Linguistic Concepts (Ovesdotter Alm et al., EMNLP 2017)
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