Thomas' Work Space

1. View screens (best viewed side by side, but note that left and right screen are not synchronized):
   1. for full slide show (note the included short links for convenient further reading), left screen
   2. for Sanako interface and full audio track, right screen.
2. Table of contents:
   1. Overview of a Sanako Oral Exam
   2. Examples of Exam teachers’ exam question recordings
   3. Example of a Sanako Exam
   4. Loop induction
   1. creating an exam question recording
   2. by taking a Sanako exam as a student
   5. Step-by-Step of administering a Sanako oral exam
   6. Grading Sanako oral exam student files
      1. Sanako voice insert for
         1. facilitating recording oral assignments for student without hard-coded pauses
         2. commenting on student responses during grading
   7. Sanako authoring tool for providing visual on top of aural cues to students
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1. Support for more languages is planned (Chinese, Japanese):
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3. The interesting approach based on parallel corpora provides a wealth of empirical data, albeit a bit raw  and of varying quality, e.g.:
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1. Eva Word Lookup – not listed under the extensions, but run against Wordnet, the lexical database for English – enables you to study your English words in depth. This lookup gives you information organized by the following aspects of your word, linked from  an overview of each word type your search term can belong  to:
1. the coordinate terms (sisters)
2. the derived forms
3. the synonyms/hypernyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
4. the hyponyms (troponyms for verbs)
5. the holonyms, for nouns
6. the meronyms, for nouns
7. sample sentences, for verbs
2. Below is what results look like for example search term “design”:

1. Furigana uses Kana (usually Hiragana) to phonetically transcribe Kanji, above (for horizontally written Kanji) or to the right (if in vertical writing mode), for special characters or audiences (children and second language learners).
2. In MS-Office, if you have a Japanese Input Method Editor selected in MS-Windows, select some Kanji and in the ribbon, under tab: home, section: font; click on the Phonetic guide, to bring up a dialogue that attempts to auto detect the furigana.
3. You can make adjustments there, click “OK “to insert. Like so:
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Go to  Google translate and do like so. Useful for learning, as well as typing when teaching.

1. Wish my Latin teacher at home would have had such a nice tool when he analyzed the “Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum / unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe / quem dixere chaos”, he had only me:
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3. Now how could such exercise creation made more automated by having it accept the output of NLP tools like Treetagger?

1. Our small group work spaces each now have a Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet installed.
2. You can use these tablets in conjunction with the Windows XP writing pad IME to input Mandarin/Kanji character strokes and receive autosuggest options you can pick you character from which make not only writing faster, but also reward you for remembering your characters, expose you to more and help you identify the correct one from a list of options.
3. Here is what the Windows XP writing pad IME and Wacom tablet looks like in action (behind the pen: our Japanese tutor).
4. Here is how to access Windows XP Japanese IME keyboard and handwriting: 
   1. Open the application you want to write in, e.g. MS Word (the language input option is specific to the current window and defaults to”English-US international”  in the LRC if you open a new window).
   2. In the taskbar, in the language toolbar section, select Japanese or Chinese or Korean.
   3. If only the language identifier is showing in the language toolbar, right-click on it and choose “Show additional icons”
   4. Select as input method for the chosen language from icon “Options” or “Tools”” , the “IME pad” / “Handwriting”
   5. Prerequisites
      1. you need to have the handwriting IME installed for Japanese or  Chinese or Korean in Control Panel / Regional and Language Options / Text Input, and East Asian language support). 
      2. For simplified Chinese, the IME Pad may not be checked to be displayed by default. Access the Tools icon menu to check it.
      3. For both simplified and traditional Chinese, if checked, the IME Pad becomes a separate top-level ion in the language bar.
      4. Some screenshots may help:

       

How do you compare this to Microsoft Maren and Google Arabic keyboard input?