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"text": "Recently, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems have started making use of advanced language technology to build intelligent systems to aid and assess reading comprehension. An early project, GLOSSER Project (Nerbonne et al., 1997) developed a system that aids readers of foreign language text, by providing access to a dictionary, exploiting morphological analysis and part-of-speech disambiguation. The Free-Text Project (Hamel and Girard, 2000) , developed a NLP-based CALL system for intermediate to advanced learners of French. The LISTEN project at CMU on the other hand, has aimed to tutor elementary school students in reading English text by using speech technology (Mostow and Aist, 2001) .",
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"text": "From a reader's perspective, our tool is a webbased browser application. It runs in a multitude of browsers ranging over various platforms including touch tablets. It has a intuitive web interface to sign up, sign in, and browse available texts in the system's library. The reader has the option either to select a text from the library to read or to upload text she wants to read using the tool by including it in the library. If the reader chooses to submit her own text, the submitted text goes through several stages of real-time annotations that are used by the tool to make the text interactive. The tool then opens the text in a distraction-free tab.",
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