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<div class="col75"> 2nd workshop on NLP for computer-assisted
language learning
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<a href="http://hf.uio.no/nodalida/">NoDaLiDa</a> workshop,
May 22, 2013, Oslo, Norway<br>
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Workshop website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/2ndNLP4CALL">http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/2ndNLP4CALL</a> <br>
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<b>Call for papers</b> <br>
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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.
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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.
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This situation calls for a change and the successful <a
href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/NLP4CALL">first
workshop on NLP for CALL</a> organized in
connection with the Swedish Language Technology Conference
2012 in Lund, as well as the recent
establishment of the <a
href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Research/icall/SIG-ICALL">NEALT
SIG-ICALL</a>, have showed that there is a need for a
forum where these issues can be discussed.
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In view of that, we welcome papers
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<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>
<li>we are also interested in software demonstrations</li>
</ul>
We especially invite submissions describing work for Nordic
languages. <br>
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<b>Submission</b>
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Papers should conform to the main <a
href="http://emmtee.net/oe/nodalida13/">Nodalida
stylesheet </a>. <br>
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 <a
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2013">EasyChair</a>.
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.
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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). <br>
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<b>Important dates: </b>
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<ul>
<li><b>March, 15</b>: paper submission to <a
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2013">EasyChair</a></li>
<li><b>April, 11</b>: notification of acceptance</li>
<li><b>April, 25</b>: camera-ready papers for publication.
You are also required to submit the <b>NEALT Transfer
of Copyright Agreement</b> with your final submission</li>
<li><b>May, 22:</b> workshop date</li>
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<b>Invited speaker</b>
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<b>Dr. Cornelia Tschichold</b>, Swansea University, chair of
the <a
href="http://www.eurocall-languages.org/sigs/langproc.html">EuroCALL
NLP SIG</a><br>
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<b>Program committee: </b>
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<li>Toni Badia, UPF, Barcelona</li>
<li> Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg</li>
<li> Robert Eklund, Linköping University</li>
<li> Petter Karlström, Stockholm University</li>
<li> Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg</li>
<li> Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University</li>
<li> Montse Maritxalar, University of the Basque country</li>
<li> Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen</li>
<li> Martí Quixal, Universty of Texas, Austin</li>
<li> Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo</li>
<li> Cornelia Tschichold, Swansea University</li>
<li> Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg</li>
</ul>
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<b>Workshop organizers</b>
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<li><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/elena">Elena
Volodina</a>, Språkbanken, Department of Swedish,
University of Gothenburg; elena dot volodina at svenska
dot gu dot se (Organizing chair)</li>
<li><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/lars">Lars
Borin</a>, Språkbanken, Department of Swedish,
University of Gothenburg; lars dot borin at svenska dot
gu dot se </li>
<li> <a href="http://www.ru.is/%7Ehrafn/">Hrafn Loftsson</a>,
Reykjavik University hrafn at ru dot is </li>
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For all inquiries, please email Elena Volodina <<b>elena
dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se</b>> </div>
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