[Corpora-List] Free E-Book Available: "Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing Approach"

[Yao Ziyuan]

Hello All,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of my e-book "Breaking the
Language Barrier: A Game-Changing Approach", which discusses
innovative approaches to foreign language acquisition, reading/writing
aids and human-assisted machine translation. Some of the ideas are
rarely found elsewhere.

Full Version Download (Free!):

PDF: http://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/files/break-lang-barrier.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

OpenOffice Document:
http://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/files/break-lang-barrier.odt?attredirects=0&d=1

Redistribution is copyright-free, free of charge and encouraged.

Best Regards,
Yao Ziyuan
yaoziyuan at gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/

p.s. Table of Contents

Overview 3
Chapter 1: Breaking the Language Barrier with Language Learning 4
1.1. Foreign Language Acquisition 4
1.1.1. Automatic Code-Switching! (ACS) 4
1.1.2. Mnemonics 7
1.1.2.1. Phonetics-Enhanced English! (PEE) 8
1.1.2.2. Orthography-Enhanced English (OEE) 10
1.1.2.3. Progressive Word Acquisition (PWA) 11
1.1.2.4. Subword Familiarization (SWF) 11
1.1.2.5. Ad-Hoc Mnemonics 12
1.1.3. Sociopsychological Considerations 12
1.1.3.1. A Politically Correct Name for English (ARCS) 12
1.1.3.2. Intuitive Scores for Language Proficiency (FLPM) 13
1.2. Foreign Language Writing Aids 13
1.2.1. Predictive vs. Corrective Writing Aids 13
1.2.2. Input-Driven Syntax Aid! (IDSA) 13
1.2.3. Input-Driven Ontology Aid! (IDOA) 14
1.3. Foreign Language Reading Aids 14
Chapter 2: Breaking the Language Barrier with Little Learning 15
2.1. Foreign Language Understanding 15
2.1.1. Machine Translation with Minimum Human Learning! (MT/MHL) 15
2.2. Foreign Language Generation 16
2.2.1. Formal Language Writing and Machine Translation! (FLW) 16
Chapter 3: Breaking the Language Barrier with Collective Intelligence 18
3.1. Collaborative Summarization and Translation 18
Appendix 19
A.1. The Phonetics-Enhanced English Scheme ver. 0.01 19

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