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I built something like this for Mandarin Chinese at a company I worked for in Shanghai, but the company was acquired and sort of put out to pasture, and it neve
by biesnecker 9y ago
I built something like this for Mandarin Chinese at a company I worked for in Shanghai, but the company was acquired and sort of put out to pasture, and it never launched. :-(
Essentially, we took already word-segmented dialog (splitting Chinese sentences into individual words is non-trivial, so having it already segmented was super useful), matched it to words that you knew, and suggested the next lesson you should learn by the percentage of vocabulary that would be new or challenging for you. It was pretty awesome, would love to have another shot at it someday.
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoI would love to have a chance to try it! A couple hundred hours into learning Chinese, and that sounds useful. Any chance you can release it? ....if not, what would you consider your best competition?
- peterburkimsher 9y agoI'm working on http://pingtype.github.io http://pingtype.github.io which also does word spacing, and literal translations.
- biesnecker 9y agoSadly this was about six years ago. The code and the platform it was built on are long gone. I don't know of anyone else who is doing exactly the same thing, though Allset Learning in Shanghai (run by a friend and fellow ex-employee of the company I built this thing at) is making graded readers built around similar ideas. Not really the same as an adaptive system, though.