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Web Application for Improvement of Vocabulary and Conversation Skills in Multiple Languages
Jakeš, Jan ; Herout, Adam (referee) ; Szőke, Igor (advisor)
The aim of this work is to create a web application that would help its users to improve their vocabulary and conversation skills in foreign language studies. An important point is an orientation on the study of several languages at the same time. The base of the system is PHP programming language and the Nette Framework library. Other technologies used are MySQL, Doctrine 2, jQuery, ExtJS and programming interfaces of Wordnik and Facebook applications. This text describes the complete process of the development from the specification and analysis of application demands over architecture and user interface design up to implementation details, the process of testing and its results. Finally it sums up the ideas for future development.
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Android Application for Learning Vocabulary
Černoch, Jiří ; Zachariáš, Michal (referee) ; Horváth, Zsolt (advisor)
This bachelor thesis describes the development of application for learning vocabulary on devices with the operating system Android. In thesis you can find basic common theory relevant to this problem, analyze of existing solutions, design of basic architecture and description of detail implementation. Program is based on SQLite database and is optimized for devices with different size of screen.
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Multimedia Language Labs in Foreign Language Education
Botlík Nuc, Tomáš ; Černochová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Ondráková, Jana (referee) ; Fialová, Irena (referee)
The dissertation deals with the issue of multimedia language labs in foreign language teaching. The research study is based on the assumption that the lab helps to practice the development of students' oral expression and how the use of the lab is connected to autonomous learning, self- assessment and multilingualism. The work examines under what conditions the SmartClass Robotel lab can be used in the teaching of the German language at a secondary school. Sixty- nine high school students took part in the research conducted in the form of a case study between December 2021 and February 2022. Data from the input and output records of the oral speech recordings of individual students have been used as the main source of the research. Each recording was evaluated by the student himself, his classmate and the teacher. The assessment focused on content and oral expression, lexical, grammatical and phonological competence. The evaluation also included an assessment of the quality and identification of the speech's weaknesses. The results show that, under certain conditions, teaching in a language lab can make it easier for teachers to implement conversational activities and allow students to work at their own pace and choose the order of activities. The benefit for teachers is the ability to collect data...
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Novel Methods for Natural Language Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Dušek, Ondřej ; Jurčíček, Filip (advisor) ; Ircing, Pavel (referee) ; Žabokrtský, Zdeněk (referee)
Title: Novel Methods for Natural Language Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Author: Ondřej Dušek Department: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor: Ing. Mgr. Filip Jurčíček, Ph.D., Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Abstract: This thesis explores novel approaches to natural language generation (NLG) in spoken dialogue systems (i.e., generating system responses to be presented the user), aiming at simplifying adaptivity of NLG in three respects: domain portability, language portability, and user-adaptive outputs. Our generators improve over state-of-the-art in all of them: First, our gen- erators, which are based on statistical methods (A* search with perceptron ranking and sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network architectures), can be trained on data without fine-grained semantic alignments, thus simplifying the process of retraining the generator for a new domain in comparison to previous approaches. Second, we enhance the neural-network-based gener- ator so that it takes preceding dialogue context into account (i.e., user's way of speaking), thus producing user-adaptive outputs. Third, we evaluate sev- eral extensions to the neural-network-based generator designed for producing output in morphologically rich languages, showing improvements in Czech generation. In...
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Proportion of four skills in lessons of German Language on secondary level
Švadlenová, Markéta ; Švermová, Dagmar (referee)
- 2 - KARLOVA UNIVERZITA PEDAGOGICKÁ FAKULTA KATEDRA NĚMECKÉHO JAZYKA PROPORCIONALITA ČTYŘ DOVEDNOSTÍ VE VÝUCE NĚMČINY JAKO CIZÍHO JAZYKA (S DŮRAZEM NA POSTAVENÍ POSLECHU S POROZUMĚNÍM) PROPORTIONALITY OF THE FOUR TARGET SKILLS IN GFL CLASSES (FOCUS: POSITION OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION) PROPORTIONALITÄT VON VIER ZIELFERTIGKEITEN IM DAF- UNTERRICHT (SCHWERPUNKT : STELLUNG DES HÖRVERSTEHENS) RIGORÓZNÍ PRÁCE 2020 Mgr. Markéta ŠVADLENOVÁ - 3 - - 4 - Švadlenová, M. Proportionality of four target skills in GFL lessons (Focus: position of listening comprehension) .Tábor, 2020. Keywords: multilingualism, target skills, media literacy, communicative competence, exonerating exercises, teaching methods, group profile, pupil portfolio, listening / visual comprehension, authentic / didactic video texts, reference levels, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, German as a foreign language This work focuses on the position of the four language skills in basic documents of the Council of Europe as well as in curricular documents and deals with means, methodical procedures and organizational forms of teaching that can lead to an effective development of language/target skills. The work is primarily devoted to the development of listening comprehension as one of the most demanding and diverse skills, and...
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Multilingual speech synthesis
Nekvinda, Tomáš ; Dušek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Peterek, Nino (referee)
This work explores multilingual speech synthesis. We compare three models based on Tacotron that utilize various levels of parameter sharing. Two of them follow recent multilingual text-to-speech systems. The first one makes use of a fully-shared encoder and an adversarial classifier that removes speaker-dependent information from the encoder. The other uses language-specific encoders. We introduce a new approach that combines the best of both previous methods. It enables effective parameter sharing using a meta- learning technique, preserves encoder's flexibility, and actively removes speaker-specific information in the encoder. We compare the three models on two tasks. The first one aims at joint multilingual training on ten languages and reveals their knowledge-sharing abilities. The second concerns code-switching. We show that our model effectively shares information across languages, and according to a subjective evaluation test, it produces more natural and accurate code-switching speech.
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Multilingualism and interculturality in international or interregional projects and work environments
BENDOVÁ, Kateřina
The purpose of this work is to carry out qualitative research in order to obtain an in-depth understanding of the NetMe-In project participants´ experiences. The Master thesis is made up of theoretical part, project and team description, research methodology, empirical part and discussion. Firstly, the theoretical part is focused on four main topics: project, team, interculturality and multilingualism. Secondly, a detailed description of the NetMe-In project itself as well as an introduction to all project partners is provided. Thirdly, the research methodology is presented including the author's research method, the recording equipment, the description of interviewees, the interview settings and the description of the interview transcription. Fourthly, the empirical part puts emphasis on analysis and interpretation of the results of the author's interviews. Lastly, the discussion is concentrated on the author's critical reflection of the qualitative research including comments on the author's methodology and the research findings.
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