1. Learning Usage of English KWICly with WebLEAP/DSR Takashi Yamanoue Kagoshima University, Japan Toshiro Minami Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences & Kyushu University, Japan Ian Ruxton Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Wataru Sakurai University of Tsukuba, Japan ICITA2004@Harbin(04.01.08-11)

2. Contents I. Motivation (Introduction) II. WebLEAP/DSR: A New implementation of WebLEAP III. Examples and Experiments for Evaluation IV. Related Work V. Concluding Remarks

3.  Difficulties in writing in English Is it really used? ? ? Spelling → spell checker Grammar → grammar checker Usage → Corpus Linguistic Tools I. Motivation

4. Problems of Ordinary Corpus Linguistic Tools  Time-consuming  Needs hard work in order to make a good corpus  Copyright problem  (often) Outdated from the beginning  Tools are mainly for experts  Difficult to use for ordinary learners

5. A Solution  Use of “ Web-Corpus ” = Using Web Documents as a Corpus  Maintenance free: Exists as it is  Always new, reflects current status of languages  A lot of applications/services are available on the Internet

6. WebLEAP  Shows  Frequencies of phrases in the given sentence graphically  Using a search engine.  New Features  KWIC (Key Word In Context)  Domain Specification

7.  WebLEAP

8. II. WebLEAP/DSR: A New implementation of WebLEAP  DSR: Distributed System Recorder  A Computer Assisted Teaching System, …  Recording and replaying every operation.  Draw, Programming, Web, WebLEAP, …  WebLEAP Basic:  Frequencies Graphically  New(using Google Web APIs):  KWIC  Domain Specification

9. WebLEAP Window Iput, setting, control, …

10. Draw window, frequencies

11. KWIC (Key Word In Context) window

12. Web browser Window

13. Setting Window, for domain specification, …

14.  Estimating the Appropriate Preposition  Comparing English: UK vs. US III. Examples and Experiments for Evaluation

15. (1) Estimating the Appropriate Preposition  Estimating the preposition for “ your own risk ”

17. Comparing English: UK vs. US  English sentence in a specific English dialect.

19.  Satoh ’ s system … webcorpus  SUIKO … detects wrong sentences  Applications using Google Web APIs  DSR: Distributed System Recorder  A Benchmarking tool for distributed systems.  A Computer Assisted Teaching system  P2P, reliable multicast, … IV. Related Work

20.  WebLEAP:  A tool for helping with writing.  Popularities of expressions.  Frequencies from a Search engine.  KWIC  How the expression is used.  Filling the lacking word.  Domain specification  WebLEAP/DSR  An application of DSR. V. Concluding Remarks

21.  Precision  Discrimination of Native speakers to non native speakers.  Differences from region to region  Collaborative Writing Further Research Topics

22. Acknowledgement  Google.com

23. Thank you for Listening!