EU 4 U: An educational platform for the cultural heritage of the EU

Maria Stambolieva


Abstract
The paper presents an ongoing project of the NBU Laboratory for Language Technology aiming to create a multilingual, CEFR-graded electronic didactic resource for online learning, centered on the history and cultural heritage of the EU (e-EULearn). The resource is developed within the e-Platform of the NBU Laboratory for Language Technology and re-uses the rich corpus of educational material created at the Laboratory for the needs of NBU program modules, distance and blended learning language courses and other projects. Focus being not just on foreign language tuition, but above all on people, places and events in the history and culture of the EU member states, the annotation modules of the e-Platform have been accordingly extended. Current and upcoming activities are directed at: 1/ enriching the English corpus of didactic materials on EU history and culture, 2/ translating the texts into (the) other official EU languages and aligning the translations with the English texts; 3/ developing new test modules. In the process of developing this resource, a database on important people, places, objects and events in the cultural history of the EU will be created.
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W19-9006
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Historical Archives
Month:
September
Year:
2019
Address:
Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Cristina Vertan, Petya Osenova, Dimitar Iliev
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RANLP
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Publisher:
INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
28–33
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-9006
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-059-5_006
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Maria Stambolieva. 2019. EU 4 U: An educational platform for the cultural heritage of the EU. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Historical Archives, pages 28–33, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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EU 4 U: An educational platform for the cultural heritage of the EU (Stambolieva, RANLP 2019)
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