[Corpora-List] Calls: 2nd workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning

[Elena Volodina]

2nd workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning

NoDaLiDa <http://hf.uio.no/nodalida/> workshop, May 22, 2013, Oslo, Norway

Workshop website: http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/2ndNLP4CALL


*Call for papers*

Existing NLP tools and resources do not tend to find their way into the 
language learning classroom, despite their obvious potential uses in 
language learning. The reasons may be twofold. On the one hand, there is 
a lack of interested sponsors. On the other hand, there is a general 
lack of interest in the NLP community in CALL applications. While this 
situation arguably may have started to change for English, and a small 
number of other languages in the past ten years, it still holds true for 
the Nordic languages.
It seems that the few systems that have been developed for ICALL are 
either copyrighted and restricted by high licensing fees -- and hence 
too expensive for universities and schools -- or fall short of the 
required quality in linguistic or pedagogical functionality.
This situation calls for a change and the successful first workshop on 
NLP for CALL <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/NLP4CALL> 
organized in connection with the Swedish Language Technology Conference 
2012 in Lund, as well as the recent establishment of the NEALT SIG-ICALL 
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/SIG-ICALL>, have showed 
that there is a need for a forum where these issues can be discussed.
In view of that, we welcome papers

  * that describe research directly aimed at ICALL,
  * that demonstrate actual or discuss potential use of existing NLP
    tools or resources for language learning,
  * that describe ongoing development of resources and tools with
    potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive
    applications, or indirectly in materials, application or curriculum
    development, e.g. collecting and annotating learner corpora;
    developing tools and algorithms for readability analysis, selecting
    optimal corpus examples, etc.
  * we are also interested in software demonstrations

We especially invite submissions describing work for Nordic languages.

*Submission*

Papers should conform to the main Nodalida stylesheet 
<http://emmtee.net/oe/nodalida13/>.
Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title 
page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in 
PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system EasyChair 
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2013>. Paper 
submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned 
without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to fourteen 
pages for regular papers (eligible for presentations), and up to eight 
pages for short papers (eligible for posters/demos). For both submission 
types, these page limits do NOT include additional pages with 
bibliographic references. Please note that NoDaLiDa 2013 adopts a 
single-column, smaller page format, optimized for on-screen reading. In 
terms of actual word counts, the above page numbers correspond to 
approximately eight versus four pages, in a 'classic', two-column 
conference proceedings layout.
All submissions to the workshop must be uploaded electronically, 
following the above requirements. All submissions will be reviewed by 
the program committee. All accepted papers will be collected into a 
proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT 
Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings).

*Important dates: *

  * *March, 15*: paper submission to EasyChair
    <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2013>
  * *April, 11*: notification of acceptance
  * *April, 25*: camera-ready papers for publication. You are also
    required to submit the *NEALT Transfer of Copyright Agreement* with
    your final submission
  * *May, 22:* workshop date


*Invited speaker*

*Dr. Cornelia Tschichold*, Swansea University, chair of the EuroCALL NLP 
SIG <http://www.eurocall-languages.org/sigs/langproc.html>

*Program committee: *

  * Toni Badia, UPF, Barcelona
  * Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg
  * Robert Eklund, Linköping University
  * Petter Karlström, Stockholm University
  * Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg
  * Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University
  * Montse Maritxalar, University of the Basque country
  * Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen
  * Martí Quixal, Universty of Texas, Austin
  * Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo
  * Cornelia Tschichold, Swansea University
  * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg


*Workshop organizers*

  * Elena Volodina <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/elena>,
    Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg; elena
    dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se (Organizing chair)
  * Lars Borin <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/lars>,
    Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg; lars
    dot borin at svenska dot gu dot se
  * Hrafn Loftsson <http://www.ru.is/%7Ehrafn/>, Reykjavik University
    hrafn at ru dot is


For all inquiries, please email Elena Volodina <*elena dot volodina at 
svenska dot gu dot se*>
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