Welcome to the Glosser-Rug Homepage

Glosser-RuG aims at facilitating the reading of French text for native Dutch speakers. To support users, an on-line dictionary, morphological analysis and examples of word use in especially collected corpora are provided. The electronic dictionary is provided by Van Dale Lexicografie, morphological analysis software is provided by Xerox Research Centre Europe (formerly Rank Xerox, Grenoble).

The project is set within the framework of GLOSSER and funded by COPERNICUS grant 343. GLOSSER aims at applying state-of-the-art linguistic technology to Computer-Assisted Language Learning. The research for Glosser-RuG takes place at the department of Alfa-Informatica (Humanities Computing), Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen.

A demonstration: Glosser-WeB

Glosser-WeB is an on-line demo version of Glosser-RuG. This version does not offer all the functionality the UNIX version does, but still gives a good idea of what it is like to use the application. You need Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4, with support for JavaScript to run this demo. Try it . . .

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The logo

The Glosser Logo includes a Greek word which might by glossed as to interpret, or interpret +INF, a foreign-language user's shortcut for interpret in infinitive form.

WELLS

A project related to Glosser-RuG is WELLS: Web-Enhanced Language Learning.

Technical reports and other publications

Some of this material is still under consideration.

Glosser-RuG: in Support of Reading, in: COLING96, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1996.
Glosser-RuG: Prototype December 1996, techreport 1997.
Duco Dokter, John Nerbonne, Lily Schurcks-Grozeva and Petra Smit, Glosser-RuG: a User Study, in: Sake Jager, John Nerbonne and Arthur van Essen (eds.) Language Teaching and Language Technology., Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1998, 167-176.
Duco Dokter and John Nerbonne, A Session with Glosser-RuG, in: Sake Jager, John Nerbonne and Arthur van Essen (eds.) Language Teaching and Language Technology., Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1998, 88-94.
From Glosser-RuG to Glosser-Web, techreport 1997.
Alessandro Allodi, Duco Dokter and Edwin Kuipers, WELLS: Web-Enhanced Language Learning, in: Sake Jager, John Nerbonne and Arthur van Essen (eds.) Language Teaching and Language Technology., Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1998, 123-135.
Reading more into Foreign Languages, ANLP97, Washington, 1997.
Duco Dokter and John Nerbonne, Applied NLP for Language Learning, in: Kris van Marcke and Walter Daelemans (eds.) Proc. of the 9th Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Antwerp, 1997, 501-04.
John Nerbonne, Duco Dokter and Petra Smit, Morphological Processing and Computer-Assisted Language Learning, in: Computer-Assisted Language Learning 11(5), 1998, 421-37. Special Issue on French edited by Michael Zock.