Development of vocabulary learning application by using machine learning technique

Noor Mohd Ariff Brahin,Haslinah Mohd Nasir,Tole Sutikno,Aiman Zakwan Jidin,Mohd Faizal Zulkifli

doi:10.11591/eei.v9i1.1616

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https://doi.org/10.11591/eei.v9i1.1616

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Abstract

Nowadays an educational mobile application has been widely accepted and opened new windows of opportunity to explore. With its flexibility and practicality, the mobile application can promote learning through playing with an interactive environment especially to the children. This paper describes the development of mobile learning to help children above 4 years old in learning English and Arabic language in a playful and fun way. The application is developed with a combination of Android Studio and the machine learning technique, TensorFlow object detection API in order to predict the output result. Developed application namely “LearnWithIman” has successfully been implemented and the results show the prediction of application is accurate based on the captured image with the list item. The inclusion of the user database for lesson tracking and new lesson will be added for improvement in the future.

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Mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets are becoming part of human’s daily life communication, as well as entertainment
This paper presents the development of Android mobile application namely “LearnWithIman” for language learning through capturing image ba sed on the word given, that aim for toddlers above 4 years old to enhance their English and Arabic vocabulary
“LearnWithIman” application is preloaded with TensorFlow object detection API which uses single shot detector (SSD) with MobileNet pre-trained model that is trained on Microsoft Common Object in Co ntext (COCO) dataset

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Mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets are becoming part of human’s daily life communication, as well as entertainment. With the advanced of mobile technologies, it can provide an interactive learning content application for children educational purpose which can be accessed anywhere and anytime. The fact that children are best learns through playing, the making of an interactive application for Android mobile attracted the research attention. There is a high potential in the usage of mobile technology, in term of how a language can be learned and enhanced. This might be a big help for children to become proficient in second language at early age. Stockwell in his paper shows that the effects of vocabulary learning through mobile platform s are comparable with the traditional ways [1]. Vocabulary learning is very crucial to build the blocks of language such as read comprehension a nd la ngua ge spea king [3]

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