35.1780, Calls: 13th Workshop on NLP4CALL 2024

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Subject: 35.1780, Calls: 13th Workshop on NLP4CALL 2024

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Date: 13-Jun-2024
From: Griselda Drouet [griselda.drouet at univ-rennes2.fr]
Subject: 13th Workshop on NLP4CALL 2024


Full Title: 13th Workshop on NLP4CALL 2024
Short Title: NLP4CALL 2024

Date: 25-Oct-2024 - 26-Oct-2024
Location: Rennes, France
Contact Person: Thomas Gaillat
Meeting Email: nlp4call2024 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://nlp4call2024.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

We are happy to announce that the 2024 edition of NLP4CALL will be
held in France at Université Rennes 2. As a result of the growing
interest in the domain, the workshop series will be held over two
days. Paper presentations, poster and demo sessions will alternate to
offer a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the
field.

The workshop series on Natural Language Processing for
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for
researchers working on the integration of Natural Language Processing
and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical
and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter
includes, among others, insights from Second Language Acquisition
(SLA) research, on the one hand, and promote the development of
“Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research
infrastructure(s), on the other.

The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language
Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of
language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has
given the name for this area of research – Intelligent CALL, ICALL. As
the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of
Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL
researchers need good insights into second language acquisition
theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language
pedagogy and didactics. This workshop invites therefore a wide range
of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools
are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa,
where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are
modeled in ICALL tools.

The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together
competencies from these areas for sharing experiences and
brainstorming around the future of the field.


Invited speakers

This year we have the pleasure to welcome Helen Yannakoudakis (King's
College London) and Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon)

Submission information

Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress.
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be
collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in
the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference
Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL
anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions.

Important dates

    January 2024 - First call for papers
    March - Second call for papers
    May - Final call for papers
    30 June - Paper submission deadline (long, short and demo)
    1 September - Notification of acceptance
    30 September - Camera-ready papers for publication
    25-26 October 2024  - Workshop dates

The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together
competencies from these areas for sharing experiences and
brainstorming around the future of the field.

We welcome papers:

- that describe research directly aimed at ICALL;

- that demonstrate actual or discuss the potential use of existing
Language and Speech Technologies or resources for language learning;

- that describe the 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. learning material generation, assessment of learner
texts/responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of
feedback;

- that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL;

- that describe empirical studies on language learner data.

This year, a special focus is given to systems relying on AI trained
for ICALL tasks. This includes, but not only, fine tuning Large
Language Models (LLMs) and supervised-learning methods based on
learning analytics. Issues related to data in SLA and learner corpus
such as collection and feature extraction are also welcome.



Invited speakers

This year we have the pleasure to welcome Helen Yannakoudakis (King's
College London) and Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon)

Submission information

Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress.
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be
collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in
the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference
Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL
anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions.



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