The document describes an interlingua project that aims to develop an online educational solution to provide students studying in a foreign language with access to relevant learning materials in their mother tongue. It does this by extracting the structure and index of textbooks, semantically annotating them, and linking them to a multilingual statistics ontology and other resources. This allows students to get translations and explanations of key concepts in their own language, as well as find relevant readings and help with terminology from textbooks.

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Interlingua: linking
textbooks across
different
languages
Isaac Alpizar-Chacon, Sergey Sosnovsky
25/06/2019

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Problems of “interlingual” students
• Transition to a new educational context is aggravated by
the need to study in a foreign language:
– unfamiliar teaching tradition
– prerequisite knowledge exist in a different language
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Project Approach
development of an online intelligent educational solution to
provide interlingual students with on-demand access to
relevant learning material in their mother tongue
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Standardab-
weichung
Écart type

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Step 1:
Textbook structure
extraction
Chapter1
Section1.1
Subsection1.1.1
Subsection1.1.2
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Section1.2
Subsection1.2.2
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Chapter1
Section1.1
Subsection1.1.1
Subsection1.1.2
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Section1.2
Subsection1.2.2
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Step2:
Textbook index
extraction
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
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Chapter1
Section1.1
Subsection1.1.1
Subsection1.1.2
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Section1.2
Subsection1.2.2
…
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
term -> page#
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Statistics
ontology
Step 3:
Semantic
Annotation
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Multilingual ontology of statistics
• Source of concepts names:
– Le glossaire ISI / ISI Glossar
(http://isi.cbs.nl/glossary/)
– ~3500 terms in ~25 languages
– Synonyms in all languages
• Source of relations and explanations:
– dbPedia (http://dbpedia.org )
– „related“ concepts
– concept definitions
– links to Wikipedia pages
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standard score
z-score
note réduite
résultat type
note typique
ponctuation standard
score centré réduit
z-Score
standardisierter Score
Standardpunktwertung
In statistics, the standard
score is the (signed) number
of standard deviations an
observation or…
standard
score
En probabilités et statistiques,
une variable centrée réduite
est une variable aléatoire…
Unter Standardisierung oder
z-Transformation versteht
man in der mathematischen
Statistik eine …
Statistical
Ratios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_score
Type
FR
DE
EN
t-statistics Type
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Statistics
ontology
Other
textbooks
Self-
assessment
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Semantic
model of the
textbook

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Relevant reading in one’s mother
tounge
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Relevant reading in one’s mother
tounge
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Help with terminology
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Help with terminology (cont.)
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