[Corpora-List] Workshop: NLP, Semantic Web, and eLearning

[Lothar Lemnitzer]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop: What can Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web  
technologies do for eLearning?
                                     June 24th, 2007
                           http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_prague.php

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in  Prague, 
Czech Republic. Address: Malostranske square 25  (Malostranske namesti 25)

                                 In conjunction with ACL 2007

Introduction

The European project Language Technology for eLearning (LT4eL)  exploits 
NLP techniques, language resources as well as Semantic Web  technologies 
to improve the retrieval and the accessibility of  learning material 
within a Learning Management System. More  generally, we believe that 
eLearning can benefit enormously from  the results achieved in these 
areas and it is for this reason that  we think that it would be useful 
to bring together researchers from  these various disciplines to 
exchange results, ideas and plans.

The workshop will provide a forum for interaction among members of  
these different research communities, and a means for attendees to  
increase their knowledge and understanding of the potential of  Natural 
Language Processing, Language technology and the Semantic  Web in eLearning.

The workshop will have the following goals:

   1. identify what Natural Language Processing, Language  Technology 
and the Semantic Web vision can do for eLearning andwhat eLearning 
expects from results in these areas.
   2. identify strong and weak points of the technologies developed  
within Natural Language Processing, Language Technology and the  
Semantic Web (on the basis of the applications/projects discussed  in 
the presentations) in order to assess to which extent they can  be 
employed within eLearning and eventually come up with new  solutions and 
ideas.

Presentations will be limited to the invited speakers but  participation 
will be open to the public. Attendance is free, but  registration is 
needed. Information on registration can be found on  the webpage of the 
workshop, as well as the full programme:
http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_prague.php

Workshop Organization: Paola Monachesi (Utrecht University)
Local Organization: Vladisvlav Kubon (Charles University Prague)