[Corpora-List] Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources: Second call for papers

[Maite Oronoz]

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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS



Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources



In conjunction with RANLP-2007

September 26, 2007

Borovetz, Bulgaria



The submission system is available at the Workshop site

http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007



RANLP 2007 site

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/



In this workshop we will discuss how using NLP techniques in the automatic

treatment of texts can support pedagogic goals. There are well over 100

documented projects at the use of NLP in Intelligent Computer-Assisted

Language Learning (ICALL) (Heift & Schulze,2007); however, there are

significantly fewer publications about the use of NLP techniques in

educational areas other than language learning.

This workshop will bring together NLP and ICALL researchers with colleagues

who are investigating NLP treatment for other educational purposes. Our main


aim is to discuss how we can use NLP in the automatic treatment of corpora
for

pedagogical purposes as well as in the analysis of learner corpora (students


free responses).

The contributions of this workshop will share at least two keywords: NLP and

Education. We especially seek contributions about the adaptation and
integration

of NLP techniques in the following areas:



* Automatic exercise and task generation

* Controlled language

* Error diagnosis and remediation

* Essay assessment

* Fostering language awareness

* Automatic generation of didactic resources

* Analysis of learners? interlanguage

* NLP for processing texts in ICALL environments

* Learner corpora

* Learning of textual analysis (in linguistics, literature, anthropology, ?)

* Student modelling

* Text production tools (e.g. grammar and spell checkers)

* Translator training



Heift, Trude, & Schulze, Mathias. (2007). Errors and Intelligence in CALL.

Parsers and

Pedagogues. New York: Routledge.



IMPORTANT DATES



Call for papers: March 26, 2007

Second call for papers: May 30, 2007

Workshop paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007

Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 23, 2007

Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings: August 24, 2007

Workshop date: September 26, 2007



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES



Instructions for Authors:

Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed 7 pages,

including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12

font is preferred. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format.



The RANLP 2007 stylefiles are available at:

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm



Submission procedure:



The submission will be maintained by conference management software - START



Please submit your paper at:
http://www.softconf.com/ranlp/NLP_ER2007/submit.html



Reviewing and Accepted Papers:

Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce

camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings.

Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions will be available at the

conference web site at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007.

If the paper is accepted for publication, at least one of the authors will

attend the workshop; all workshop participants are expected to pay the

RANLP-2007 workshop registration fee.



Requirements:

Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation

cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers

that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate

this on the title page.

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. The paper should not include the

authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other

references that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided.



COMMITTEE



Organizing Committee:

Montse Maritxalar (University of the Basque Country)

Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)

Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo, Canada)



Programme Committee:

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of the Basque Country)

Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)

Pius ten Hacken (Swansea University, U.K.)

Trude Heifth (Linguistics Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Ola Knutsson (School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute
of Technology, Sweden)

Chao-Lin Liu (Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University,
Taiwan)

Montse Maritxalar (University of the Basque Country)

Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA)

Ruslan Mitkov - (University of Wolverhampton, U.K)

John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago de Cuba)

Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Eiichiro Sumita (NICT/ATR, Japan)



CONTACT



For questions or comments, please contact nlper07 at gmail.com