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NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems
InSTIL/ICALL2004 Symposium on Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Università 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 Vilhjálmsson, 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
Díaz, Martí 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
vier Kraif, Georges Antoniadis, Sandra Echinard, Mathieu Loiseau,
Thomas Lebarbé, Claude Ponton
NLP Tools for CALL : the Simpler, the Better
Michael Zock, Julien Quint
Converting an electronic dictionary into a drill tutor
Mícheál Mac Lochlainn, Gearóid Ó Néíll
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
Zöe Handley, Marie-Josée 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 Symposium
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