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