LingBrowser: An active, Interactive and Intelligent Linguistic Content Browser Employing Natural Language Processing Technology

智能、互动和互联网可访问的工具可以帮助学习（关于）其他语言。在语言学计划和国际科学与工程办公室的支持下，由土耳其计算语言学家Kemal Oflazer博士和美国语音学和形态学语言学家Sharon Inkelas博士领导的研究小组将开发一种新的多维工具，称为LingBrowser，其目的是为语言学家和语言学生提供有关土耳其单词和文本的即时信息。LingBrowser可以分析从单个单词到整个文本的任何内容。一旦用户给出文本，LingBrowser将为用户高亮显示的任何单词提供有关发音、形态分析（显示复杂单词的部分及其含义）、语义（单词和某些短语的含义）以及某种程度上的语法（确定高亮显示的单词的词性及其在包含它们的句子中的语法角色）的即时信息。LingBrowser可以向用户显示同一文本中与突出显示的单词具有相同词根甚至相同词尾的其他单词，并在出现歧义时提供帮助。土耳其语中的许多单词都是模棱两可的，至少从包含它们的句子的上下文来看是这样。LingBrowser将列出一个给定单词的所有可能的含义，并为用户排列这些含义在上下文中的可解释性。LingBrowser还可以立即列出文本中包含突出显示的单词或单词的所有句子，以帮助用户了解特定单词或短语在土耳其语中的确切用法。LingBrowser将是一个非常有用的研究工具，无论是专业语言学家寻求更多地了解土耳其语的语法（语音，形态，句法）和语言的高级学生以及翻译。它体现了字典的所有功能，但远远超出了字典所能提供的。LingBrowser将在土耳其和美国的一系列合作访问中开发，在计算方面具有创新性;它将是第一个供语言学学生使用的基于高级自然语言处理（NLP）的文本浏览和探索工具。它的平台独立性使它具有高度的适应性，可在不同类型的计算机上使用，其模块化设计使它不仅易于适应土耳其语以外的语言，而且还可以适应其他类型的用途，包括为更初级的语言学习者提供的语言教学练习。LingBrowser的广泛影响是双重的：（a）LingBrowser将使土耳其语语法研究活动的增加成为可能，（B）基于LingBrowser中体现的计算创新，为其他语言开发相关计算工具的增加。该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

Intelligent, interactive and internet-accessible tools can be helpful in learning (about) other languages. With support from both the Linguistics Program and the Office of International Science and Engineering, a research team led by Dr. Kemal Oflazer, a Turkish computational linguist, and Dr. Sharon Inkelas, an American linguist specializing in phonology and morphology, will develop a new, multidimensional tool, called LingBrowser, whose aim is to make available to linguists and language students instantaneous information about Turkish words and texts. LingBrowser can analyze anything from a single word to an entire text. Once given a text by the user, LingBrowser will provide, for any words that the user highlights, instantaneous information about pronunciation, morphological analysis (showing the parts of complex words and their meanings), semantics (the meanings of words and some phrases) and, to some degree, syntax (determining the part of speech of highlighted words and their grammatical role in the sentence containing them). LingBrowser can show the user other words in the same text which share the same root or even the same endings as the highlighted word, and offer assistance in cases of ambiguity. Many words in Turkish are ambiguous, at least when viewed out of the context of the sentence containing them. LingBrowser will list all of the possible meanings of a given word and rank, for the user, the meanings in order of plausibility in context. LingBrowser can also instantly list all of the sentences in the text containing a highlighted word or words, for users seeking more information about how exactly a particular word or phrase is used in Turkish. LingBrowser will be a highly useful research tool both to professional linguists seeking to learn more about the grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax) of Turkish and to advanced students of the language as well as translators. It embodies all of the functionality of dictionaries but goes far beyond what a dictionary can offer. LingBrowser, which will be developed during a series of collaborative visits both in Turkey and in the United States, is computationally innovative; it will be the first advanced natural language processing (NLP)-based text browsing and exploration tool for use by linguistics students. Its platform independence makes it highly adaptable, usable on different types of computers, and its modular design makes it easily adaptable not only to languages other than Turkish but also, down the road, to additional types of uses, including language instruction drills for the more elementary language learner. The broader impacts of LingBrowser are twofold: (a) an increase in activity in research into Turkish grammar that LingBrowser will make possible, and (b) an increase in the development of related computational tools for other languages, based on the computational innovations embodied in LingBrowser.This award is co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.