LINGUIST List 14.560

Tue Feb 25 2003

Calls: Historical Pragmatics, Denmark/NLP, Canada

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Historical Pragmatics
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, Building Educational Applications Using NLP

Historical Pragmatics


Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Date: 10-Aug-2003 - 15-Aug-2003 
Web Site: http://www.hum.ku.dk/ichl2003/
Contact Person: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Meeting Email: majhum.ku.dk
	
Linguistic Subfield(s): 
Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
	
This is a session of the following conference:
16th International Conference of Historical Linguistics
	
Meeting Description: 

Date: 11-Aug-2003 - 15-Aug-2003
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2003 

The ICHL2003 (XVIth International Conference on Historical
Linguistics: http://www.hum.ku.dk/ichl2003/) will include a section on
historical pragmatics organised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,
University of Copenhagen (majhum.ku.dk) and Corinne Rossari,
University of Geneva (corinne.rossarilettres.unige.ch)

Invited plenary speaker: Diane Vincent, Universit� de Laval.
	
This section will accept papers on all aspects of historical
pragmatics. The field includes, on the one hand, socio-historical and
pragmatic analyses of older texts in the light of their own
socio-cultural context, i.e. studies falling within what has been
called ''New Philology''. On the other hand, it includes studies of
language change in a socio-cultural and/or pragmatic perspective. An
example of the latter could be the study of grammaticalization and/or
semantic change conditioned by pragmatic factors such as discourse
structure, speech acts types, conversational implicature etc. Papers
on the following topics are particularly welcome: The lexicalization
of subjectivity (e.g. discourse markers, modality, logic-semantic
relations, evidentiality...); The interplay between discourse genre
and language structure; linguistic politeness in a diachronic
perspective.
	
200-word abstracts may be submitted via the conference web site
http://www.hum.ku.dk/ichl2003/
	

Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing
HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop
May 31, 2003
Edmonton, Canada

***EXTENDED DEADLINE***

http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL

Overview
There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for
both large-scale assessment and classroom instruction. This has
occurred for two primary reasons. First, there has been a significant
increase in the availability of computers in schools, from elementary
school to the university. Second, there has been notable development
in computer-based educational applications that incorporate advanced
methods in NLP that can be used to evaluate students' work.
Educational applications have been developed across a variety of
subject domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and
intelligent tutoring. To date, these two research areas have remained
autonomous. We hope that this workshop will facilitate communication
between researchers who work on all types of instructional
applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Since most
of this work in NLP-based educational applications is text-based, we
are especially interested in any work of this type that incorporates
speech processing and other input/output modalities. We wish to
expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope
that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an
educational application.

Call for Papers

We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to:

* Speech-based tools for educational technology
* Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with
regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for
domain-specific responses
* Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as
legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing
* Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP
methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or
speech-based analyses
* Dialogue systems in education
* understanding student input
* generating the tutors' feedback
* evaluation
* Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
* Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building
* Content-based scoring

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline:
Mar 17
Notification of acceptance for papers:
Mar 31
Camera ready papers due:
Apr 8
Workshop date:
May 31


Organizers

Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service (jbursteinets.org)
Claudia Leacock, Educational Testing Service (cleacockets.org)

Program Committee:

Gregory Aist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
(RIACS), NASA
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York 
Ron Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
John Dowding, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
(RIACS), NASA
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University
Art Graesser, University of Memphis
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern
California
Thomas Morton, University of Pennsylvania
Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh
Susanne Wolff, Princeton University
Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service

Format for Submission 

Information about submissions can be found at the URL below. Please
follow the instructions for full papers and use only Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF) or MS-Word documents.

Since the review process will be blind, please do not include any
author information on the actual paper. Please include an additional
title page with the following information: Paper title, names and
contact information for all authors, and the paper's abstract.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html

Please e-mail your final .pdf or MS-Word submission to
jbursteinets.org or cleacockets.org no later than March 17, 2003.
Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions
regarding the workshop.