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Preliminary programme
Thursday June 17th 2004
8:30 - 9:30
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Registration |
9:30 - 9:45
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Presentation of the Conference
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SESSION CHAIR |
9:45 - 10:30
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Invited Speaker: Bjorn Granstroem
Towards a virtual language tutor
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:15
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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
Identifying common pronunciation errors in the Dutch of learners with different L1s
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"
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12:15 - 13:00
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Session 2 - CALL Tools
W. Lewis Johnson, S. Choi, S. Marsella, N. Mote, S. Narayanan, H. Vilhjálmsson, S. 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
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00
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Poster Session
M. Demol, K. Struyve, W. Verhelst, H. Paulussen, P. Desmet and P. Verhoeve
Efficient non-uniform time-scaling of speech with WSOLA for CALL applications
P. Schmidt, S. Garnier, M. Sharwood, T. Badia, L. Díaz, M. Quixal, A. Ruggia, A. S. Valderrabanos,
A. J. Cruz, E. Torrejon, C. Rico, J. Jimenez
ALLES: 'Controlled language tools' and 'information extraction tools' for CALL Applications
O. Kraif, G. Antoniadis, S. Echinard, M. Loiseau, T. Lebarbé, C. 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
N. Mote, L. Johnson, A. Sethy, J. Silva, S. Narayanan
Tactical Language Detection and Modeling of Learner Speech Errors: The case of Arabic tactical language training for American English speakers
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SESSION CHAIR |
16:00 - 17:15
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Session 3 - NLP and CALL
Irena Vitanova
Evaluating integrated NLP in foreign language learning: technology meets pedagogy
C. Greene, K. Keogh, T. Koller, J. Wagner, M. Ward, J. van Genabith
Using NLP technology in CALL
Christian Fortmann, Martin Forst
An LFG Grammar Checker for German
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17:15 - 17:45
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Coffee Break |
17:45 - 19:00
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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
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20:30 - 22:30
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Concert |
Friday June 18th 2004
8:30 - 9:30
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Registration |
9:30 - 10:15
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Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Menzel
Errors, Intentions, and Explanations: Feedback Generation for Language Tutoring Systems
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10:15 - 10:45
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Coffee Break |
10:45 - 12:00
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Session 5 - NLP and CALL
E. M. Bender, D. Flickinger, S. Oepen, A. Walsh and T. Baldwin
Arboretum: Using a precision grammar for grammar checking in CALL
Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla
Text generators, error analysis and feedback
Rodolfo Delmonte
Evaluating StudentsÍ Summaries with GETARUNS
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12:00 - 12:45
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Session 6 - Speech and CALL
Chao Wang, 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
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12:45 - 14:15
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Lunch |
14:15 - 16:00
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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
J. Haller, M. Carl, S. Garnier, B. Stroede, L. Wind
Intelligent Learner Utterance Evaluation in ProGram
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16:00 - 17:15
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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
Jared Bernstein, Isabella Barbier, Elizabeth Rosenfeld, John De Jong
Development and Validation of an Automatic Spoken Spanish Test
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17:15 - 17:45
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Coffee Break |
17:45 - 18:45
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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
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19.00 - 20.00
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Boat Trip to Burano |
20.00 - 22.30
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Banquet |
Saturday June 19th 2004
8:30 - 9:30
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Registration |
9:30 - 10:15
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Invited speaker: Yorick Wilks
Artificial Companions
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10:15 - 10:45
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Coffee Break |
10:45 - 12:00
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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
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12:00 - 13:00
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Session 10 - Prosody and CALL
Mitchell Peabody, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang
Mandarin Tone Acquisition through Typed Dialogues
Philippe Martin
WinPitch LTL Version II, a multimodal pronunciation software
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00
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Poster Session
Gerard Kempen
Interactive visualization of syntactic structure assembly for grammar-intensive first- and second-language instruction
S. Boytcheva, I. Vitanova, A. Strupchanska, M. Yankova, G. 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
S. Montanari, S. Yildirim, S. Khurana, M. Landes, L. Lawyer, E. Andersen and S. 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.
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16:00 - 16:45
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Session Chair
Invited speaker: Piero Cosi
ITALIAN LITERACY TUTOR
tools and technologies for individuals with cognitive disabilities
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16:45 - 17:15
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Coffee Break |
17:15 - 18:30
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Session 11 - QA, NLP and CALL
Peter Vlugter, Alistair Knott, 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
John Morgan, Stephen La Rocca
Making a Speech Recognizer Tolerate Non-native Speech through Gaussian Mixture Merging
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18:30
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Farewell and End of Symposium |
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