Generation of virtual annotated corpora
Generation of virtual annotated corpora

Summary/Abstract: Course designers and instructors do their best to provide well-structured and motivating e-learning process by choosing the most appropriate e-materials and to create variety of digital activities of different types. One possible approach to reduce their efforts in the process of creating e-courses is presented in this paper. It is based on the idea of applying structured annotation of text corpora, using previously defined annotation elements, divided into four groups. The annotation is done by experts in linguistics and thousands of annotated text corpora is stored and analyzed. The set of annotated text corpora can be used to provide two important features: 1. to generate new text corpora, called virtual corpora, which can be used as learning materials in e-course and 2. to generate new test items of different types, which can be used to enrich question banks and to create online quizzes. The first feature will improve the quality of the e-course content and the second will enhance learners‘ assessment and self-assessment. Web-based annotation software system called MorphAnalyzer with separate modules for virtual corpora and test items generation is created and integrated into Moodle learning management system. The annotation system is tested and approbated in the foreign languages subject area.

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