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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
InSTIL/ICALL Symposium 2004
NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems
17-19 June 2004
Venice, Italy
Symposium website:
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The InSTIL SIG is delighted to announce our next symposium to be held
in Venice on June 17-19, 2004.
LOCATION
Auditorium Santa Margherita, Universitą Ca Foscari - Venezia
IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop CFP Distribution Deadline: Nov 10, 2003
- Workshop Paper Submission Suggested Deadline: Feb 21, 2004
- Acceptance Notification : April 21, 2004
- Camera Ready papers: May 21, 2004
- Workshop dates: June 17-19, 2004
GOALS AND SCOPE
The scope of this workshop is to join together people working in the
two neighbouring and often overlapping fields of Natural Language and
Speech Technologies research oriented towards Language Learning and
Tutoring.
Thanks to latest remarkable advances in NLP research, there has been an
increasing interest among researchers in the implementation of
NLP-based educational applications for both large-scale assessment and
classroom instruction. Educational applications have been developed
across a variety of subject domains, among others, in automated
evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring.
We feel that research in Artificial Intelligence, Computational
Linguistics, Corpus-Driven and Corpus Linguistics, Formal Linguistics,
Machine Aided Translation, Machine Translation, Natural Language
Interfaces, Natural Language Processing, Theoretical Linguistics has
produced results which have proven, are proving and will prove very
useful in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
Research areas may concern Second language oriented research but also
First Language learning in presence of language deficiencies -
deafness, dislexia - and sign language. In more general terms, we are
targeting intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate
state-of-the-art NLP methods
to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based
analyses.
The three-day Symposium is supported by the InSTIL SIG three parent
associations, CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA (International Speech
Communication Association) and . It builds on the excellence and
excitement of the ISCA workshop STiLL 98 , held in Marholmen, Sweden
and on InSTIL events since (2000 and 2002).
Sub-themes: In the selection process, preference will be given to
submissions for Papers, Show & Tell Demonstrations and Posters (please
specify) related to at least one of the following areas:
1. Language Processing for CALL
NLP for Language Tutoring Systems
Automatic Summary/Essay/Precis Evaluation Tools
Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing
Grammar Checkers for Language Learning
Natural Language Generation for Collaborative Interfaces
Machine Translation and Machine Aided Translation Tools for Language
Learning
Corpus-Based NLP Tools for Language Learning
Text Understanding Systems for Language Learning
Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems for Language Learning
Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
Use of student linguistic databases (text or speech) for tool building
2. Speech Processing for CALL
CALL Tools for learning/teaching pronunciation
CALL Tools for learning/teaching phonetics and phonology
CALL Applications using Speech Recognition as learning aid
CALL Applications using Speech Synthesis as learning aid
Multimodal CALL System using Speech or Voice Recognition
CALL Applications with graphic display of pronunciation features
CALL tools Speech Analysis
CALL tools networks for Speech Storage/Databases/Archives
Multimodal CALL System using voice triggered operations and learning
Multimodal CALL System using networks for semi-intelligent interactions
involving knowledge bases accessed through voice
Multimodal CALL System using visual display of phonemic symbols from
voice input
CALL tools for corrective phonology/phonetics
CALL tools to help with Speech and Hearing Disorders
PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited speakers, oral
presentations, poster presentations, referenced demonstrations and
panels. There is no difference in quality between oral presentations
and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of
communication to the content of the paper will be considered. All
papers will be blind refereed by two members of the Scientific
Committee.
The information on paper submission will soon appear on the website and
on the InSTIL site at
Paper length will be up to 8 A4 pages for keynote speakers and 4 A4
pages both for oral and poster presentations.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail, numbered sequentially
and sent to the Chair of the Scientific Committee, Philippe Delcloque
for distribution to the Scientific Panel.
The Scientific Panel includes the following names:
Reiko Akahane-Yamada
Jared Bernstein
Ron Cole
Piero Cosi
Peter Roach
Bjorn Granstrom
Catia Cucchiarini
Helmer Strik
Masatake Dantsuji
Philippe Delcloque
Rodolfo Delmonte (Chair of Panel and co-organiser of Symposium)
Kathleen Egan
Maxine Eskenazi
Aline Germain
Bjorn Granstrom
Marie Jo Hamel
Valerie Hazan
Trude Heift
Melissa Holland
Eric Keller
Ton Koet
Steve La Rocca
Philippe Martin
Dominic Massaro
Blaise NKwenti-Azeh
Patti Price
Mat Schulze
Yorick Wilks
Brigitte Zellner-Keller
Submissions will be refereed on a double blind basis using a
criterion-referencing system, details of which can be found at the
conference website: and
All applicants will be notified of the Panel's decision by 15 April
2000. The symposium, which will also include several free hands-on
workshops and a separate one-day training event, will be open to
presenters as well as parties simply interested in the field.
The Organisation Committee:
Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Sara Tonelli, Rachele de Nicola,
Ciprian Bacalu, Luminita Chiran.
We look forward to giving you all a warm Venetian welcome.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
You are kindly requested to bring a copy of the form together with a
copy of the bank transfer documents to the conference secretariat at
your arrival in case you would like to pay in advance.
Otherwise, it is recommended that you pay cash on site at your arrival
at the Registration Desk directly in the Auditorium.
No Credit-Card payment will be available, sorry.
The conference registration fee includes: conference fee, conference
package, 5 coffee breaks, and Proceedings.
Normal Fee
$ 300
Euro 300
Student Fee
$ 100
Euro 100
Industrial Session Fee
$ 500
Euro 500
Please pay the conference fee to the:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio
on the c/c n. 221528
at the Banca Intesa B.C.I.
ABI 3069
CAB 2010
SWIFT BCITIT22221
with the subject "Quota di iscrizione INSTIL/ICALL" and your name.
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