SLTC conference

Wallenberg Centre


 Workshop objectives

Language education and assessment are both labor intensive processes 

and come at a  high cost for schools and governments. This represents 

a challenge as well as an opportunity for teachers, researchers, and 

commercial developers to create computerized applications to support 

them.

Language technologies have recently made tremendous progresses to the 

point that their routine use can now make a substantial contribution 

to applications within the domains of both education and assessment. 

Successful applications based on language technologies and informed 

by practice and research could supplement human instruction and 

assessment and automate certain well-defined tasks with high 

quality but an economical cost. The introduction and acceptance of 

such applications would be made easier by the regular use and 

availability of computers at home and in schools.

This workshop intends to be a forum for the research community that 

will enable it to review current applications within this area using 

language technologies in Sweden, Scandinavia, and the rest of the 

world, and to exchange ideas.

  Workshop program


15.20-15.25 Welcome!
Pierre Nugues & Jonas Granfedt
15.25-15.50 The task, the tool and the activity: mediation in ICALL environments
Ola Knutsson, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH and Petter Karlström, School of Communication and Information Technology, KTH/SU
15.50-16.15 MULINCO: a corpus platform for research and education
Bente Maegaard, Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen
16.15-16.40
ASK: a learner corpus as a research tool
 Kari Tenfjord, University of Bergen
16.40-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-17.25 Direkt Profil: a system for grammatical profiling and assessment of French L2
Jonas Granfeldt, Pierre Nugues, Lund unviersity
17.25-17.50
The project WebALT: using multilingual grammars to produce
  mathematical teaching material
Aarne Ranta, University of Göteborg
17.50-18.15 Closing discussion: Comments and summary of the day (moderator: Lars Borin).

Workshop organisers: Pierre Nugues (Department of computer science, 

Lund Institute of Technology) & Jonas Granfeldt (Center for languages 

and literature, Lund university)

For general information about the conference, please see the conference website

For information about this workshop, please contact pierre.nugues@cs.lth.se