Developing a Context-Supported Chinese Grammar Learning System in Mobile Environments

Abstract

This work develops a context-supported Chinese gra mmar learning system on the Android platform for use by Chinese as a Foreig n Language (CFL) learners in mobile environments. Users can interact with the system by selecting a grammar word and a situational context (e.g., person, place, and activ ity) as a query, and the system will return a list of relevant sentences corresponding to the s elected grammar word and context. These sentences would help users learn appropriate usages of the grammar words in the right context. The user interface represents situational contexts using pictures for ease of context selection. The sentences used for retrieval are gat hered from some corpora for Chinese learning and revised by a human expert to improve r eadability in the corresponding context.