儿童外语学习认知数据收集的在线游戏框架

摘要

近年来,人工智能技术飞速发展,不少工作试图从人类的认知发展过程中探索前进方向,语言学习认知的过程成为了重点关注的研究领域.已有的语言认知研究工作主要集中在学龄前儿童母语的词汇学习认知方面,依赖于WordBank①等大规模语料库.然而就我们所知,目前在第二语言学习方面研究不多,尚未有大规模的第二语言词汇学习数据,且传统的数据收集方法难以收集到大规模数据,这也一定程度上限制了对于第二语言学习的研究工作及母语与第二语言学习的比较.针对这一问题,该文面向学龄前儿童群体设计了基于游戏性原则的数据收集方法和研究框架,用于收集第二语言的语言学习情况和用户数据,以支撑相应研究工作的开展.目前,已经实现了针对学龄前儿童的第二语言为英语的词汇认知数据收集系统,正在进行在线的数据收集.%The language cognition research is often based on the dataset of children's first language vocabulary devel-opment,such as WordBank and other large-scale corpora.However,there is no large-scale second language vocabu-lary development dataset,and it is very difficult to collect a big dataset with traditional data collecting method.This limits the study of second language learning and the comparison of first language and second language learning.In this paper,we design a data collecting framework for children based on the idea of games with a purpose,to collect children's vocabulary development status and his/her attributes.We have implemented the second language vocabu-lary development collecting system for children English learning so far,and the system is conducting online data col-lection now.