Dynamic generation of vocabulary practice

摘要

The apparatus includes an electronic dictionary and a dictionary word exercise generator to generate vocabulary exercises for any requested vocabulary-type word in the electronic dictionary. The dictionary word exercise generator includes an exercise creator to generate the exercises from at least the definition of the word in the dictionary, and a linguistic database, a distracters database and an exercise creator. The linguistic database includes at least the electronic dictionary and a thesaurus. The electronic dictionary has definitions for the dictionary words therein and often, a usage example for the dictionary words. The thesaurus has at least synonyms for its words. The distracters database stores at least one distracter set for each dictionary word, the distracter word being commonly mistaken for the dictionary word. The exercise creator creates exercises for a user selected dictionary word from at least one of its associated definition, usage example, if present, synonyms and distracter words.