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Towards an Adaptive Learners’ Dictionary

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2000)

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This paper presents an ongoing research project about the development of an electronic learners’ dictionary for the German and the Italian language (ELDIT). Modern psycholinguistic methods for language acquisition will be applied together with technologies for hypermedia and adaptive systems in order to ensure maximum effectiveness.

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  1. European Academy Bolzano, Weggensteinstr. 12a, 39100, Bozen, Italy

    Johann Gamper & Judith Knapp

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  1. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. ITC-irst, I-38050, Povo Trento, Italy

    Oliviero Stock  & Carlo Strapparava  & 

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Gamper, J., Knapp, J. (2000). Towards an Adaptive Learners’ Dictionary. In: Brusilovsky, P., Stock, O., Strapparava, C. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44595-1_36

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