COMPUTER-MEDIATED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
and
EVALUATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Call for Participation
A Symposium jointly sponsored by:
International
Association of Language Learning Technologies
and
Association for
Computational Linguistics
Tuesday, June 22, 1999 (preceding IALL-99
and ACL-99)
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The purpose of this meeting will be to strengthen collaboration between
researchers and users of language learning tools. We solicit abstracts
for a range of participation types, including, but not limited to presentations,
proposals, demonstrations, and papers on:
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language assessment
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software for first and second language acquisition
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general discussions of problems and solutions in evaluating systems, software,
and and people learning language.
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integrating technology and foreign language pedagogy
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user studies
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the relation between technology and language learning, or linguistic theory
and tool-building
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discussions of what is feasible and/or desirable in language learning technology
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computer adaptive testing and speech recognition in language assessment
and placement
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software and tool demonstrations
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formulation of discussion questions for panels relating to any of the above
Submitters are invited to submit at least 2 (and at most 8) pages, summarizing
the proposed contribution. Submit author(s), title, surface mail, and email
addresses SEPARATELY. On the author/title sheet, indicate any equipment
needs, apart from an overhead projector and a Windows computer with projector.
Electronic submissions using the ACL style files are encouraged and
will made be available (for accepted papers) on the web as well as at the
meeting. Following the workshop, participants will be invited to submit
fuller papers for a joint IALL-ACL publication.
The symposium will be organized around the topics outlined in the call,
according to submissions and the general interests of the participants.
We are interested soliciting participation by (inter alia):
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researchers, educators, lab managers, software developers who work directly
in the intersection between computational theory and language learning,
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language educators and lab managers interested in what is possible and
in process in computational linguistics,
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computational linguists interested in languages learning software as an
application,
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people who assess language acquisition (in people) who (would like to)
have insight into good techniques that have been applied for evaluating
computational systems and output,
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people who work on metrics for evaluating computational systems who might
have insight into scoring assessments in language acquisition.
A listserv has been set up to encourage interaction and questions before
the symposium. To be added to the list, send mail to acl-iall-request@cfar.umd.edu
with "subscribe" in the subject line. Messages
may be submitted to everyone on the list by sending mail to acl-iall@cfar.umd.edu
.
Review Committee
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Charlotte Groff Aldridge (University of Maryland Language Center Director)
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Susan Armstrong (University of Geneva, ISSCO)
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Chris Higgins (University of Maryland Language Center, IALL-99 conference
chair)
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Eduard Hovy (USC, Information Sciences Institute)
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Douglas Jones (U.S. Department of Defense)
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Margaret Ann Kassen (Catholic University, Modern Languages)
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Dorry Kenyon (Center for Applied Linguistics)
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Patricia O'Neill Brown (U.S. Department of Commerce)
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Philip Resnik (University of Maryland Linguistics & Computer Studies)
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Roberta Lavine (University of Maryland, Spanish and Portuguese)
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Valerie Malabonga (Center for Applied Linguistics)
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Flo Reeder (MITRE Corporation)
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Carol Van Ess-Dykema (U.S. Dept. of Defense)
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John White (Litton PRC)
Deadlines
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Abstracts/proposals: March 30, 1999
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Notification of acceptance: April 30, 1999
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Final submissions: May 30, 1999
Send Submissions to:
Mari Broman Olsen
molsen@umiacs.umd.edu,
FAX: (301) 314-9658
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
3141 A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742