Conf: CALICO'09 Pre-Conference

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:56:25 -0500
From: Xiaofei Lu <xxl13 at psu.edu>
Message-ID: <9dde48870902130956j1d3bb3actf49497e072a913ba at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://purl.org/calico/aall09prog.html

              Call for Participation and Program of the

                 CALICO'09 Pre-Conference Workshop on



               AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF LEARNER LANGUAGE:

        FROM A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ANNOTATION NEEDS TO THE

        DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF ANNOTATION SCHEMES



                http://purl.org/calico/aall09prog.html



                        March 10 and 11, 2009

                 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, TEMPE, AZ



Tuesday, March 10, 2009



1:15-1:30  Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei Lu:
           WELCOME



1:30-2:00  Amir Zeldes, Hagen Hirschmann, and Anke Lüdeling
           (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
           MULTILEVEL LEARNER CORPORA



2:00-2:30  Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group), Michael Gamon
           (Microsoft Research), and Chris Brockett (Microsoft
           Research)
           DOES AUTOMATED FEEDBACK IN A PROOFREADING TOOL HELP
           AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER?



2:30-3:00  Øistein E. Andersen (University of Cambridge, UK)
           COMBINING AUTOMATED AND MANUAL TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASED
           EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN CORPUS ERROR ANNOTATION



3:00-3:45  BREAK



3:45-4:15  Chong Min Lee (Georgetown University), Soojeong Eom
           (Georgetown University), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana
           University)
           TOWARDS ANALYZING KOREAN LEARNER PARTICLES



4:15-4:45  Sylvie Thouesny (Dublin City University, Ireland)
           INCREASING THE RELIABILITY OF A PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING
           TOOL FOR USE WITH LEARNER LANGUAGE



4:45-5:15  Markus Dickinson and Joshua Herring (Indiana University)
           MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FOR RUSSIAN LEARNER LANGUAGE



5:15-5:45  John Lee (MIT), Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service),
           and Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)
           HUMAN JUDGMENT ON ARTICLE AND NOUN NUMBER USAGE



Wednesday, March 11, 2009


9:00-9:30  Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Richard Sproat
           (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
           AUTOMATED PRONUNCIATION SCORING FOR L2 ENGLISH LEARNERS



9:30-10:00  Ross Hendrickson and Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young
            University)
            THE USE OF NLP TECHNOLOGIES TO ENGINEER ORAL PROFICIENCY
            TEST ITEMS



10:00-10:30 Trevor Shanklin (San Diego State University)
            STUDENTS NATURALLY SPEAKING



10:30-11:15 Break



11:15-11:45 Su-Youn Yoon and Richard Sproat (University of Illinois
            at Urbana-Champaign)
            AUTOMATED SPEECH FLUENCY SCORING USING SIMPLE SPEECH
            TECHNOLOGY



11:45-12:15 Jeremiah McGhee, Aaron Johnson, Ross Hendrickson, Meghan
            Eckerson, Malena Weitze, Ben Millard, Ray Graham, Deryle
            Lonsdale, and Dan Dewey (Brigham Young University)
            IMPROVING AUTOMATED ORAL TESTING: IDENTIFYING FEATURES AND
            ENHANCING SPEECH RECOGNITION



12:15-1:30  Lunch



1:30-2:00   Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service) and Martin
            Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)
            TOWARDS AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRING MODELS OF ESL ERRORS



2:00-2:30   Huaqing Hong and Jianzhen Zheng (Nanyang Technological
            University, Singapore)
            TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF METAPHORIZATION IN
            STUDENTS' WRITINGS



2:30-3:00   Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University)
            AUTOMATING MEASURES OF L2 SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY



3:00-3:45   Break



3:45-4:15   Ana Díaz-Negrillo and Salvador Valera (University of Jaén,
            Spain)
            WHAT RESULTS GIVE WHICH STRATEGIES IN ERROR ANNOTATION?



4:15-4:45   Sun-Hee Lee (Wellesley College), Seok Bae Jang (Brigham
            Young University), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana University)
            ANNOTATION OF SPELLING ERRORS FOR KOREAN LEARNER CORPORA



4:45-5:15   Adriane Boyd (The Ohio State University)
            AMBIGUOUS ERRORS IN ANNOTATION SCHEMES AND EVALUATION



5:15-5:45   Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)
            EXPLORING CONSISTENCY IN LEARNER CORPUS ANNOTATION



Abstracts and more information on the workshop can be found at

                 http://purl.org/calico/aall09abs.html



For questions, you can contact the organizers Detmar Meurers and
Xiaofei Lu at calico-workshop at ling.osu.edu

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