<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"> </font><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Call for Participation and Program of the</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CALICO'09 Pre-Conference Workshop on</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF LEARNER LANGUAGE:</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FROM A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ANNOTATION NEEDS TO THE </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF ANNOTATION SCHEMES</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://purl.org/calico/aall09prog.html">http://purl.org/calico/aall09prog.html</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>March 10 and 11, 2009</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, TEMPE, AZ</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">Tuesday, March 10, 2009</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">1:15-1:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei Lu:</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WELCOME</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">1:30-2:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Amir Zeldes, Hagen Hirschmann, and Anke Lüdeling</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>MULTILEVEL LEARNER CORPORA</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">2:00-2:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group), Michael Gamon </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Microsoft Research), and Chris Brockett (Microsoft </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Research)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DOES AUTOMATED FEEDBACK IN A PROOFREADING TOOL HELP </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">2:30-3:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Øistein E. Andersen (University of Cambridge, UK)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>COMBINING AUTOMATED AND MANUAL TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASED </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN CORPUS ERROR ANNOTATION</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">3:00-3:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>BREAK</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">3:45-4:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Chong Min Lee (Georgetown University), Soojeong Eom</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Georgetown University), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TOWARDS ANALYZING KOREAN LEARNER PARTICLES</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">4:15-4:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sylvie Thouesny (Dublin City University, Ireland)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>INCREASING THE RELIABILITY OF A PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TOOL FOR USE WITH LEARNER LANGUAGE</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">4:45-5:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Markus Dickinson and Joshua Herring (Indiana University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FOR RUSSIAN LEARNER LANGUAGE</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">5:15-5:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>John Lee (MIT), Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service), </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HUMAN JUDGMENT ON ARTICLE AND NOUN NUMBER USAGE</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">Wednesday, March 11, 2009</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">9:00-9:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Richard Sproat</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOMATED PRONUNCIATION SCORING FOR L2 ENGLISH LEARNERS</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">9:30-10:00 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ross Hendrickson and Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>THE USE OF NLP TECHNOLOGIES TO ENGINEER ORAL PROFICIENCY </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TEST ITEMS</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">10:00-10:30 Trevor Shanklin (San Diego State University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>STUDENTS NATURALLY SPEAKING</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">10:30-11:15 Break</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">11:15-11:45 Su-Youn Yoon and Richard Sproat (University of Illinois </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>at Urbana-Champaign)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOMATED SPEECH FLUENCY SCORING USING SIMPLE SPEECH </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TECHNOLOGY</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Courier New"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">11:45-12:15 Jeremiah McGhee, Aaron Johnson, Ross Hendrickson, Meghan </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Eckerson, Malena Weitze, Ben Millard, Ray Graham, Deryle </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lonsdale, and Dan Dewey (Brigham Young University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>IMPROVING AUTOMATED ORAL TESTING: IDENTIFYING FEATURES AND </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ENHANCING SPEECH RECOGNITION</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">12:15-1:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lunch</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">1:30-2:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service) and Martin </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TOWARDS AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRING MODELS OF ESL ERRORS</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">2:00-2:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Huaqing Hong and Jianzhen Zheng (Nanyang Technological </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>University, Singapore)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF METAPHORIZATION IN </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>STUDENTS' WRITINGS</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">2:30-3:00<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOMATING MEASURES OF L2 SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">3:00-3:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Break</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">3:45-4:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ana Díaz-Negrillo and Salvador Valera (University of Jaén,</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Spain)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WHAT RESULTS GIVE WHICH STRATEGIES IN ERROR ANNOTATION?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">4:15-4:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sun-Hee Lee (Wellesley College), Seok Bae Jang (Brigham </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Young University), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ANNOTATION OF SPELLING ERRORS FOR KOREAN LEARNER CORPORA</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">4:45-5:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Adriane Boyd (The Ohio State University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AMBIGUOUS ERRORS IN ANNOTATION SCHEMES AND EVALUATION</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">5:15-5:45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>EXPLORING CONSISTENCY IN LEARNER CORPUS ANNOTATION</font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">Abstracts and more information on the workshop can be found at</font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://purl.org/calico/aall09abs.html">http://purl.org/calico/aall09abs.html</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">For questions, you can contact the organizers Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei </font></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New">Lu at <a href="mailto:calico-workshop@ling.osu.edu">calico-workshop@ling.osu.edu</a></font></p><br clear="all">-- <br>Xiaofei Lu, Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Applied Linguistics<br>The Pennsylvania State University<br><a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13">http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13</a><br>