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Date: 28-Nov-2006
From: Luiz Amaral < amaral.1 at osu.edu >
Subject: Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning 

	
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:07:22
From: Luiz Amaral < amaral.1 at osu.edu >
Subject: Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning 
 

Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning 
Short Title: IICALL 2006 

Date: 14-Dec-2006 - 17-Dec-2006 
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact: Detmar Meurers 
Contact Email: dm at ling.ohio-state.edu 
Meeting URL: http://purl.org/net/iicall 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop on interfaces of ICALL preceded by three pre-workshop courses. 
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. Please direct any questions to: 
Luiz Amaral (amaral.1 at osu.edu), Detmar Meurers (meurers.1 at osu.edu)

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

The program of the workshop is available at

               http://purl.org/net/iicall/program.html

Opening Remarks

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 Break

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 Break

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





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