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2nd workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning<br>
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<b>The deadline is extended till</b><b> March, 22.</b><br>
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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>
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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. <br>
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. <br>
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. <br>
In view of that, we welcome papers
<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>
<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> <br>
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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. <br>
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> <br>
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<ul>
<li><b>March, 22</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> <br>
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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> <br>
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<ul>
<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> <br>
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<ul>
<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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