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2nd Call for Papers: workshop on NLP in computer-assisted language
learning<br>
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Workshop is organized as a part of SLTC, the Fourth Swedish Language
Technology Conference, which takes place on 24-26 October 2012 in
Lund, Sweden. The workshop is held on October 25, 2012. <br>
Details about the conference: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/">http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/</a>
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Learning and teaching languages with the assistance of a computer,
i.e. computer-assisted language learning (CALL), has become
widespread since the early 1980s. Traditional CALL applications
provide limited exercise types, along with limited ability to
provide feed-back, because the exercises are static, i.e.
pre-programmed, and the answers have to be pre-stored.
<p>To try to overcome this disadvantage, some researchers have
started to use techniques from the field of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) in CALL system, i.e. supplying CALL applications
with some kind of intelligence. As a result, the interdisciplinary
field of Intelligent CALL (ICALL), i.e. combining NLP and CALL,
has emerged over the past 20 years or so. </p>
<p>There is an array of NLP resources and tools potentially
available for re-use in ICALL applications for Swedish as well as
for many other languages equipped with NLP tools and resources,
but this opportunity has so far remained relatively
underdeveloped.</p>
<p>We welcome papers </p>
<ul>
<li>that describe research directly aimed at ICALL,</li>
<li>that demonstrate actual or discuss potential use of existing
NLP tools or resources for language learning,</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p>We especially invite submissions describing work on Swedish or
other Nordic languages. </p>
<p>Papers should be a maximum of 8-10 pages long (excluding title,
references and author affiliations) and follow the ACL template <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.acl2011.org/authors.shtml"
title="http://www.acl2011.org/authors.shtml">http://www.acl2011.org/authors.shtml</a>.
Only pdf files are accepted.</p>
<p>Every paper will be reviewed by 2 members of the program
committee. All accepted papers will be published in the NEALT
Proceeding Series. Authors of the accepted papers will have to
sign an agreement with NEALT publishers. </p>
<p>Important dates: </p>
<ul>
<li>10 September: paper submission by email to elena dot volodina
at svenska dot gu dot se</li>
<li>1 October: notification of acceptance</li>
<li>22 October: camera-ready papers for publication</li>
</ul>
<p>Program committee: </p>
<ul>
<li>Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen, Germany</li>
<li> Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</li>
<li> Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland</li>
<li> Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</li>
<li> Ola Knutsson, Stockholm University, Sweden</li>
<li> Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK</li>
<li> Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</li>
</ul>
<p>Workshop organisation </p>
<p>There will be an invited speaker (Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik
University, Iceland) as well as regular (short) talks</p>
<p>Details on place and time are provided at the conference website:
<a href="http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/workshops/">http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/workshops/</a></p>
<p>Workshop organizers </p>
<p>Lars Borin, Elena Volodina, Språkbanken, Department of Swedish,
University of Gothenburg; lars dot borin at svenska dot gu dot se,
elena dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se </p>
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