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unive.it>NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems InSTIL/ICALL2004 Symposium on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Universita Ca' Foscari Auditorium Santa Margherita Venice - Italy 17-19 June 2004 website of the symposium http://project.cgm.unive.it Thursday, June 17 8:30 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 Presentation of the Conference 9:45 Invited Speaker: Bjorn Granstroem - Towards a virtual language tutor 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 SESSION 1 - Speech Technology Matteo Gerosa, Diego Giuliani Preliminary investigations in automatic recognition of English sentences uttered by Italian children A.Neri, C.Cucchiarini, W.Strik Segmental errors in Dutch as a second language: how to establish priorities for CAPT Hans G. Tillmann, Hartmut Pfitzinger The Development of an Advanced SLP-based System for Individual Training and Fast Learning to Speak a New Language: "Chinese for German L1 Speakers" 12:15 SESSION 2 - CALL Tools W. Lewis Johnson, Sunhee Choi, Stacy Marsella, Nicolaus Mote, Shrikanth Narayanan, Hannes Vilhj�lmsson, Shumin Wu Tactical Language Training System: Supporting the Rapid Acquisition of Foreign Language and Cultural Skills Jonathan C. Brown, Maxine Eskenazi Retrieval of Authentic Documents for Reader-Specific Lexical Practice 13:00 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Poster Session M. Demol, K. Struyve, W. Verhelst, H. Paulussen, P. Desmet and Piet Verhoeve Efficient non-uniform time-scaling of speech with WSOLA for CALL applications Paul Schmidt, Sandrine Garnier, Mike Sharwood, Toni Badia, Lourdes Diaz, Mart Quixal, Ana Ruggia,Antonio S. Valderrabanos Alberto J. Cruz, Enrique Torrejon, Celia Rico, Jorge Jimenez ALLES: Controlled language tools' and 'information extraction tools' for CALL Applications Oli vier Kraif, Georges Antoniadis, Sandra Echinard, Mathieu Loiseau, Thomas Lebarbe, Claude Ponton NLP Tools for CALL : the Simpler, the Better Michael Zock, Julien Quint Converting an electronic dictionary into a drill tutor Michel Mac Lochlainn, Gearid � Nll Specifying Grammatical Points Nicolaus Mote, Lewis Johnson, Abhinav Sethy, Jorge Silva, Shrikanth Narayanan Tactical Language Detection and Modeling of Learner Speech Errors: The case of Arabic tactical language training for American English speakers 16:00 SESSION 3 - NLP and CALL Irena VITANOVA Evaluating integrated NLP in foreign language learning: technology meets pedagogy Cara GREENE, Katrina KEOGH, Thomas KOLLER, Joachim WAGNER, Monica WARD, Josef VAN GENABITH Using NLP technology in CALL Christian Fortmann, Martin Forst An LFG Grammar Checker for German 17:15 Coffee Break 17:45 - 19:00 SESSION 4 - Prosody and CALL Rebecca Hincks Processing the prosody of oral presentations Akira Ishida Computational method to determine the appropriateness of lexical tones Zoe Handley, Marie-Josie Hamel Investigating the Requirements of Speech Synthesis for CALL with a View to Developing a Benchmark 20:30 - 22:30 Concert Friday, June 18 8:30 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Menzel - Errors, Intentions, and Explanations: Feedback Generation for Language Tutoring Systems 10:15 Coffee Break 10:45 SESSION 5 - NLP and CALL Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Stephan Oepen, Annemarie Walsh, and Timothy Baldwin Arboretum: Using a precision grammar for grammar checking in CALL Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla Text generators, error analysis and feedback Rodolfo Delmonte Evaluating Students' Summaries with GETARUNS 12:00 SESSION 6 - Speech and CALL Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff High-quality Speech Translation for Language Learning Tatiana Levi, Steve Stokowski, Nikolaus Koster and Andreas Rycshka Voice Recognition Feature of the German Express Courseware: Conceptualization, Specification and Prototyping -- Model Elaboration through Phases 12:45 Lunch 14:15 - 16:00 Poster Session Lee Schwartz, Takako Aikawa, Michel Pahud Dynamic Language Learning Tools Werner Winiwarter PETRA - the Personal Embedded Translation and Reading Assistant Joachim Wagner A false friends exercise with authentic material automatically retrieved from a corpus Anne Bonneau, Mathieu Camus, Yves Laprie, Vincent Colotte A computer-assisted learning of English prosody for French students Craig Thomas, Michael Levison, Greg Lessard Experiments in Prosody for the Generation of Oral French Hiroko Hirano, Goh Kawai Modeling pitch errors of Japanese intonational phrases spoken by a native speaker of Chinese Johann Haller, Michael Carl, Sandrine GARNIER, Brigitte STROEDE, Lutz WIND Intelligent Learner Utterance Evaluation in ProGram 16:00 SESSION 7 - Speech and CALL K.Truong, A.Neri, C.Cucchiarini, W.Strik Automatic pronunciation error detection: an acoustic-phonetic approach Yasushi TSUBOTA, Masatake DANTSUJI, Tatsuya KAWAHARA Practical Use of Autonomous English Pronunciation Learning System for Japanese Students John Morgan, Stephen LaRocca Making a Speech Recognizer Tolerate Non-native Speech through Gaussian Mixture Merging 17:15 Coffee Break 17:45 - 18:45 SESSION 8 - Dialogue and CALL Antoine Raux, Maxine Eskenazi Using Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems for Language Learning: Potential, Practical Application and Challenges Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang Spoken Conversational Interaction for Language Learning 19:00 - 20:00 Boat Trip to Burano 20:00 - 22:30 Banquet Saturday, June 19 8:30 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 Invited Speaker: Yorick Wilks - Artificial Companions 10:15 Coffee Break 10:45 SESSION 9 - Dialogue and CALL Manfred Klenner Tutorial Dialogues in DiBEx Ingrid Kirschning CSLU Toolkit-based Vocabulary Tutors in Jean Piaget Special Education School Ornella Mich, Diego Giuliani, Matteo Gerosa Parling, a CALL system for children 12:00 SESSION 10 - Prosody and CALL Mitchell Peabody, Stephanie Seneff, and Chao Wang Mandarin Tone Acquisition through Typed Dialogues Philippe Martin WinPitch LTL Version II, a multimodal pronunciation software 13:00 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Poster Session Gerard Kempen Interactive visualization of syntactic structure assembly for grammar-intensive first- and second-language instruction Svetla Boytcheva, Irena Vitanova, Albena Strupchanska, Milena Yankova, Galia Angelova Towards the assessment of free learner's utterances in CALL Gerardo Ayala Software Agents Supporting Second Language Learning as a Personalized, Collaborative and Lifelong Activity Cecily Heiner, Joseph Beck, Jack Mostow Improving the Help Selection Policy in a Reading Tutor that Listens Simona Montanari, Serdar Yildirim, Sonia Khurana, Marni Landes, Lewis Lawyer, Elaine Andersen and Shrikanth Narayanan Analyzing the interplay between spoken language and gestural cues in conversational child-machine interactions in pre/early literate age groups Dario Bianchi, Monica Mordonini, Agostino Poggi Spoken dialog for e-learning supported by domain ontologies. 16:00 Invited Speaker: Piero Cosi - ITALIAN LITERACY TUTOR tools and technologies for individuals with cognitive disabilities 16:45 Coffee Break 17:15 SESSION 11 - QA, NLP and CALL Peter Vlugter, Alistair Knott, and Victoria Weatherall A human-machine dialogue system for CALL: interactions between grammar checking and question answering Charles Grant Brown, Nathan Keim, Kevin Brammer, Lorne Flagel The Incomplete Grammar approach to the development of a Strong-AI based ICALL system Jared Bernstein, Isabella Barbier, Elizabeth Rosenfeld, John De Jong Development and Validation of an Automatic Spoken Spanish Test 18:30 - Farewell and End of SymposiumMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue