ABSTRACT
Glosser-R u G is one of the demonstrators developed within the GLOSSER project. 1 This Project Aimed At Applying State-Of-The-Art Techniques In Natural Language Processing to the paradigm of Communicative Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (Warschauer 1996) applications. Software was developed to facilitate the task of reading a foreign language by providing information on words. Techniques that were applied in this project include morphological analysis, part-of-speech (POS) disambiguation, aligning bilingual corpora, World-Wide Web technology, and indexing. The project vision foresees two main areas where GLOSSER applications can be used. First, in language learning and second, as a tool for users that have a bit of knowledge of a foreign language, but cannot read it easily or reliably. The latter group might not be trying to learn, only to cope with a specific text. A user might, for instance, need to read a software manual, that contains a number of unfamiliar words. GLOSSER provides the user (or learner) with a means of being able to look up information on unfamiliar words in a straightforward and user-friendly manner. Software has been developed for English/Estonian, English/Bulgarian, English/Hungarian and French/Dutch assistance. This paper describes the French-Dutch demonstrator. 2
