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Formes Cachées: a computer game with a French natural language interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Robert Ward
Robert Ward
Affiliation:
School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Huddersfield
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Abstract

Formes Cachées is a visuo-spatial puzzle in the form of a computer game. Users participate in the game by means of a natural language interface through which they ask questions and give instructions. Solving the puzzle therefore involves using language in a purposeful way as a tool rather than as subject matter. This article describes a French version of the game. In its current form the game would be mainly of novelty value in foreign language teaching, but its techniques could be used in creating software to cover a more extensive range of language.

The software, which runs under Microsoft Windows in 800 x 600 SVGA, may be downloaded from the CT1 Modern Languages World Wide Web server, http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/software.htm

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , November 1996 , pp. 35 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1996

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Notes

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