Monona — A Poor Man’s DIY Dictionary Kit

Abstract

When learning a new foreign language, a non-native speaker met more problems in using a word than in understanding the meaning of the word. The Monona system is a useful tool for learners of English that provides a user with many sample sentences containing a queried word. Monona builds a database of the high-quality articles that are available freely in the internet and an accompanied index. Since building the index is done automatically by programs, it is cheap to add more articles to the database. Finally, a user interface is built with the Java programming language that allows a user to enter queries. The results are presented in a web browser.