Developing a knowledge base of ancient literary texts in virtual space

Boda, István Károly; Tóth, Erzsébet; Csont, István; Nagy, László T.

doi:10.1109/coginfocom.2016.7804559

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“…During the reading process, we need a certain amount of dictionary and background knowledge to understand and interpret the text we are just reading. To support this, the selected material should be carefully preprocessed to provide the necessary (or presumed) dictionary and background knowledge for the reader in order that the text could be read (and understood) at once and without much effort [15]. We present an English translation of the poem 'To a maiden' by Sappho which is part of the knowledge base of ancient texts.…”

Section: An Example Of the Possible Application Of The Virtual Librarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting language learning in the three-dimensional model of the ancient Library of Alexandria

Boda¹,

Tóth²,

Csont³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Informatics

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Our basic aim of the research is the implementation and gradual improvement of a three-dimensional virtual library model. In the development stage of the first version of the model we chose some illustrious authors who represented the ancient Greek poetry and drama from the 3rd century BC. Their short biography and certain parts of their works formed the selected content of the virtual library model. We designed a four-level hierarchical and scale-free structure based on the original classification scheme of the ancient Library of Alexandria elaborated by Callimachus. We are enhancing the content of the database with additional items of different verbal and/or multimedia text types (e.g. illustrative images, commentaries, concordance and collocation tables, dictionary entries, translations, adaptations, summaries and so on). This additional background information is necessary for us to interpret and understand the old Greek poetical texts better, especially in the case of mythological allusions. Currently we investigate how the collected items can be effectively used in language learning to develop the learners' linguistic competence, and, in general, how the spatial hypertext concept could promote the multidisciplinary use of the model in education. The virtual library model is currently based on PHP/MySQL technology which fully supports the three-dimensional representation capabilities of the VirCA (Virtual Collaboration Arena) system.

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Section: An Example Of the Possible Application Of The Virtual Librarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting language learning in the three-dimensional model of the ancient Library of Alexandria

Boda¹,

Tóth²,

Csont³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Informatics

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“…[7,9,12], but later we significantly expanded the content of the virtual library in order that we can meet the requirements of the potential language learners. Though we think that the 3DVLM can be developed for different applications and purposes, language learning has seemed to be the most useful application of the virtual library material [10,11] because, among others, of the increasing significance of the advanced English language competence and skills in the so-called information society. Moreover, the basic concept of the virtual library project includes to convey the message of ancient and classical cultures to the present-day culture through literature and we are convinced that with a carefully elaborated way and methodology the eternal values and thoughts of classical literary works can be precisely and eloquently expressed for the young members of the generations CE [15].…”

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Enhancing Hungarian students’ English language skills on the basis of literary texts in the three-dimensional space

Boda¹,

Tóth²,

Nagy³

2023

AMI

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In our paper we introduce a bilingual language learning material developed in the framework of the so-called three dimensional virtual library model (3DVLM). This model inspired by the history and organization of the famous ancient Library of Alexandria forms the basis of the virtual library project which started about eight years ago as part of the Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) research. The current version of the 3DVLM uses the excellent 3D features of the MaxWhere Seminar System which makes it suitable for both individual learning and classroom use. In the following, we would like to introduce first the basic framework of our development, then describe in detail the data structure and organization of the developed bilingual language learning material. The basic idea of the material is to present selected phrases and contexts from classical literary works in English and from their parallel translations in Hungarian in order to improve both the language skills and background knowledge of Hungarian language learners at an advanced level. We found that using web technology was especially useful for developing the language learning material and the developed hypertext structure formed a scale-free network of interconnected nodes.

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“…In our paper we would like to focus on the data structure and organization of the current implementation of the 3DVLM. For those, who are interested in the three-dimensional virtual library model, we recommend our previous publications [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] where further details can be found. Note that the 2D version of the library is available in the internet [20].…”

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English language learning by visualizing the literary content of a knowledge base in the three-dimensional space

Boda¹,

Tóth²

2021

AMI

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Developing a knowledge base of ancient literary texts in virtual space

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Supporting language learning in the three-dimensional model of the ancient Library of Alexandria

Supporting language learning in the three-dimensional model of the ancient Library of Alexandria

Enhancing Hungarian students’ English language skills on the basis of literary texts in the three-dimensional space

English language learning by visualizing the literary content of a knowledge base in the three-dimensional space

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