Linking Lexicographic Resources to Language Proficiency-Level Applications

Abstract

Purpose: We aim to enhance the development of vocabulary teaching and training materials by converging difficulty-graded word lists with lexicographic data. Grading word difficulty is prevalent in both native and additional language learning, in production and reception tasks, and for text readability analysis and vocabulary testing. Our objectives are to upgrade the usability of such resources for creators of vocabulary learning materials – by enriching them with semantic information such as definitions, examples of usage, and multiword expressions (and possibly more) from dictionaries – cross-lingualize the different language sets, and upload the by-products to the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud.