CALL: Vocabulary Example Web Search Tool

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CALL Vocabulary Example Web Search Tool

• Joseph Irwin

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Outline

• Statement of Purpose
• Problem Addressed
• Solution
• Limitations

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Statement of Purpose

• Web search engine
• Allows to search for word usage examples
• Inefficient and inconvenient
• Application to perform search and present
  results in a convenient and useful form
• Provides a useful tool and at the same time
  demonstrates utility of combining fields
• search, clustering, natural language processing

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Problem

• Although search engines are useful, they present
  difficulties
• Must read through extraneous information
• Polysemy difficult to differentiate between
  senses
• Results returned from metadata, etc.

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Solution

• Application geared toward example searching
• Clusters similar results
• Presents results in concordance-like format
• Links to original pages

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Limitations

• Clustering is only as good as the
  language-analysis techniques
• Problems inherent in using web-content
• Implementation is not complete

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