June 22, 1999

830-845        Introductions and opening remarks
                        Mari Broman Olsen
                        Introduce SESSION I:  COLLECTING AND EVALUATING ORAL LANGUAGE
                        Session chair: Mary Ellen Scullen, University of Maryland, Department of French and  Italian

845-920        Eliciting Natural Speech from Non-native Users: Collecting Speech data for LVCSR
                        Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo and Susanne Burger - Carnegie Mellon University

920-955        Speech Comparision in the Rosetta StoneTM
                        John Fairfield - James Madison University

955-1010      BREAK

1010-1045   Multimedia Computer Technology and Performance-Based Language Testing:
                        A Demonstration of the Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument (COPI)
                        Valerie Malabonga and Dorry Kenyon - Center for Applied Linguistics

1045-1120    Modeling the Language Assessment Process and Result:
                         Proposed Architecture for an automatic Oral proficiency Assessment
                         Gina-Anne Levow and Mari Broman Olsen - University of Maryland
 

1120-1130    Introduce SESSION II:  MULTIMODAL AND MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES
                        Session chair:  Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Department of Defense

1130-1205    Dual Use of Linguistic Resources:  Evaluation of MT Systems and Language Learners
                        Lisa Decrozant - University of Maryland and Army Research Laboratory
                        Clare R. Voss - Army Research Laboratory

1205-1240    FAME:  a Functional Annotation Meta-scheme for multi-modal and multi-lingual
                        parsing Evaluation
                        Allessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli, Claudia Soria -
                        Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR

1240-2          LUNCH
 

2-215           Remaining Session II discussion.
                       Introduce SESSION III:  COLLECTING AND EVALUATING WRITTEN LANGUAGE
                       Session chair:  Flo Reeder, MITRE Corporation

215-250       Modeling User Language Proficiency in a Writing Tutor for Deaf Learners of English
                       Lisa Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy - University of Delaware

250-325       Exploiting the Student Model to Emphasize Language Teaching Pedagogy in Natural
                       Language Processing
                       Trude Heift and Paul McFetridge - Simon Fraser University
                        See the presentation

325-340       BREAK

340-415        A Web-based System for Automatic Language Skill Assessment:  EVALING
                        Cédrick Fairon - Université Paris, LADL

415-450        Automated Essay Scoring for Nonnative English Speakers
                        Jill Burstein - Educational Testing Service
                        Martin Chodorow - Hunter College of CUNY

450-515        Closing discussion

 

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