VOL. 53, BOOK 1, PART A, 2015, pp. 565 – 575 Full text (Bg)
Author: Roussi Nikolov
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
Beyond its usual applications, information technologies offer a powerful and complementary approach to the study – both scientifically and practically – of human languages. The goal of the course is two-fold: to familiarize students in linguistics with the main types of language resources and tools, but also to teach them the basics of the design of such tools. As an example, a computation-al method is presented here for evaluating the phonological distance between words, fairly consistent with the perceptual data, as well as its application in the computer program TREFL for automatic generation of didactically useful associations between words.
Key words: Computational Linguistics, Phonological Similarity, Foreign Language Learning
