[Corpora-List] "Interfaces of ICALL" Event Program and Call for Participation

[Detmar Meurers]

                       Call for Participation

   Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning
                            IICALL 2006

                  http://purl.org/net/iicall

         Workshop and Pre-Workshop Courses, December 14-17
        Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

Research  in  Intelligent  Computer-Aided  Language  Learning  (ICALL)
integrates natural language  processing into a computer-aided language
learning environment.  For such  research to be innovative, successful
and  sustainable, it  arguably needs  to combine  linguistic modeling,
second language acquisition  research (learner and activity modeling),
and pedagogical  insights from foreign  language teaching (instruction
modeling) with representations and computational linguistic algorithms
capable of integrating the information from these models.

The  current state of  the art  in the  various relevant  fields seems
favorable  for interdisciplinary  ICALL  research.  Complementing  the
focus on communication and  culture in foreign language teaching since
the  60s,  second language  acquisition  research  since  the 90s  has
clearly established  that awareness of language  categories, forms and
rules---and  thus linguistic  modeling  and the  processing needed  to
identify  those  properties---is important  for  an  adult learner  to
successfully  acquire a  foreign  language.  At  the  same time,  most
research  groups  currently  lack the  interdisciplinary  orientation,
background, or ties  needed to develop and combine  the linguistic and
learner/cognitive  modeling  with  computational  processing,  and  to
develop  and test intelligent  tutoring systems  as part  of real-life
language teaching.  The IICALL  workshop and the  pre-workshop courses
are  intended to  foster  exchange and  in-depth  discussion of  these
interfaces of ICALL.

Participation in the workshop and the pre-workshop courses is free,
for presenters as well as for non-presenters. If you are planning to
attend the event, please register at

              http://purl.org/net/iicall/registration

to help us plan the  event.  Information on travel and accomodation is
included on the  event web site. Please direct  any questions to: 
Luiz Amaral (amaral.1 at osu.edu), Detmar Meurers (meurers.1 at osu.edu)

We  are grateful  to  the Ohio  State  College of  Humanities and  the
Department  of Linguistics  for financial  support under  the Targeted
Investment in  Excellence initiative for  the Cross-disciplinary study
of Language.

--- PRE-WORKSHOP COURSES: December 14-16

Information on the pre-workshop courses by Kathleen McCoy (U. Delaware),
Eckhard Bick (Southern Denmark U.) and Susan Bull (U. Birmingham) can
be found at 
               http://purl.org/net/iicall/courses.html


--- WORKSHOP: December 17  (http://purl.org/net/iicall/program.html)

                     IICALL 06 Workshop Program

8:45 - The Role of Interfaces in ICALL
       Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers - The Ohio State University


SESSION 1: Content Evaluation and Text Mining in ICALL

9:15 -  Authentic, Individualized Practice for English as a Second 
        Language Vocabulary
          Michael Heilman and Maxine Eskenazi 
          (University of Pittsburgh)

9:45 -  Computation of Grammaticality and Semantic Correctness of 
        Composition Exercises for Language Learners
          Patrick Suppes, Michael Boettner, and Robert Smith Jr.
          (Stanford University)

10:15 - A Surface-processing Approach to Content Assessment of 
        Reading-comprehension Exercises
          Stacey Bailey (The Ohio State University)

10:45 - 11:15  Coffee


SESSION 2: ICALL and Second Language Acquisition Research

11:15 - Measuring L2 Development in an ICALL Context
          Ken Petersen (Georgetown University)

11:45 - Learner Variability and Student Modeling
          Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo, Canada)

12:15 - Corpus Applications for Awareness-raising Activities in 
        Telecollaborative Foreign Language Teaching: 
        The case of German modal particles
          Nina Vyatkina (Penn State University)

12:45 - 2:00  Lunch


SESSION 3: Error Detection in ICALL 

2:00 -  Detecting Grammatical Errors Using Probabilistic Parsing
          Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster and Josef van Genabith 
          (National Center for Language Technology, 
           Dublin City University)

2:30 -  Exploiting NLP to Derive Learner Error Likelihood Probabilities
          Nicolaus Mote and Lewis Johnson 
          (CARTE, Information Sciences Institute.
           University of Southern California)

3:00 -  Head-lexicalized PCFGs for Verb Subcategorization Error 
        Diagnosis in ICALL
          Adriane Boyd and Vanessa Metcalf 
          (The Ohio State University)

3:30 - 4:00  Coffee


SESSION 4: Exercise Generation for Language Awareness

4:00 -  Gender and Handedness: NLG and L2 French
        - Greg Lessard and Michael Levison 
          (Queen's University, Canada)

4:30 -  Multi-layer Perception System for Automatic Tagging of the 
        Arab Words
        - Mohsen Maraoui, Georges Antoniadis, and Mounir Zrigui 
          (LIDILEM Laboratory, Stendhal University, Grenoble, France
           and RIADI Laboratory, Monastir, Tunisia)

5:00 -  Exploring Authentic Text in ICALL: The WERTi system
        - Vanessa Metcalf and Detmar Meurers 
          (The Ohio State University)