CYJun 18, 2016
A Conceptual Design of Mobile Learning Applications for Preschool ChildrenRadoslava Kraleva, Velin Kralev, Dafina Kostadinova
This article focuses on the possibilities of using mobile learning in the Bulgarian preschool education of young children. The state preschool educational regulations are presented and discussed. The problem concerning the children's safety when using mobile devices in terms of access to information on the Internet is revealed and analyzed. Two conceptual models of applications for mobile learning aimed at preschool children are designed. Their advantages and disadvantages are outlined and discussed. Keywords - mobile applications for children, mobile learning, design of mobile learning component, software engineering
CLJun 13, 2015
A Publicly Available Cross-Platform Lemmatizer for BulgarianGrigor Iliev, Nadezhda Borisova, Elena Karashtranova et al.
Our dictionary-based lemmatizer for the Bulgarian language presented here is distributed as free software, publicly available to download and use under the GPL v3 license. The presented software is written entirely in Java and is distributed as a GATE plugin. To our best knowledge, at the time of writing this article, there are not any other free lemmatization tools specifically targeting the Bulgarian language. The presented lemmatizer is a work in progress and currently yields an accuracy of about 95% in comparison to the manually annotated corpus BulTreeBank-Morph, which contains 273933 tokens.