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LODE: Global Reasoning on E-Stories for Deaf Children

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2007)

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Due to a limited exposition to the language in its spoken form in their first years of life, deaf children lack the primary means of acquiring literacy skills. In this paper, we present LODE a web-based interactive tool for the literacy of Italian deaf children. LODE proposes written e-stories and elicits children to globally reason on them through interactive exercises, developed with the support of an automated reasoner and a natural language processor. The LODE’s users are also invited to collaborate and exchange their productions in an interactive manner.

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  1. KRDB, CS Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari & Ornella Mich

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Gennari, R., Mich, O. (2007). LODE: Global Reasoning on E-Stories for Deaf Children. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74829-8_83

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