SLaTE 2011

Oral Session - Language games
Chair: Martin Russell

1. An Agent Based Competitive Translation Game for Second Language Learning.pdf
   Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Rui Prada
2. Listening Comprehension Games for Portuguese: exploring the best features.pdf
   Rui Correia, Thomas Pellegrini, Maxine Eskenazi, Isabel Trancoso, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede
3. Generation of Educational Content through Gameplay.pdf
   Adam Skory, Maxine Eskenazi

Oral Session - Reading and literacy
Chair: Febe de Wet

1. Evaluating a Text-to-Scene Generation System as an Aid to Literacy. pdf
   Bob Coyne, Cecilia Schudel, Michael Bitz, and Julia Hirschberg
2. Evaluating Tracking Accuracy of an Automatic Reading Tutor.pdf
   Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen, Jack Mostow, Zheng-Hua Tan, Børge Lindberg, Yuanpeng Li
3. Combining Acoustic and Language Model Miscue Detection Methods for Dyslexic Read Speech. pdf
   Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen, Børge Lindberg, Zheng-Hua Tan

Oral Session - Speech synthesis
Chair: Maxime Eskenazi

1. Using Speech Synthesis to Simulate an Interlanguage and Learn the Italian Lexicon. pdf
   Rodolfo Delmonte, Francesco Stiffoni
2. Towards Personalised, Synthesis-based Content in Irish (Gaelic) Language Education. pdf
   Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Christoph Wendler, Harald Berthelsen, Amelia Kelly,
   Emer Gilmartin, Elaine Ní Dhonnchadha, Christer Gobl
3. Poster pitch (8 x 3 min.)

Poster Session - Spoken language

1. A Student-Centred Evaluation of a Web-Based Spoken Translation Game. pdf
   Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Qinglu Zhang
2. Introducing Difficulty-Levels in Pronunciation Learning. pdf
   Mark Kane, Joao Cabral, Amalia Zahra and Julie Carson-Berndsen
3. Reliability of non-native speech automatic segmentation for prosodic feedback. pdf
   Larbi Mesbahi, Denis Jouvet, Anne Bonneau, Dominique Fohr, Irina Ilina, Yves Laprie
4. Rule-based Method for Pitch Level Classification for a Japanese Pitch Accent CALL System. pdf
   Greg Short, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
5. Using an Ensemble of Classifiers for Mispronunciation Feedback. pdf
   Gopal Ananthakrishnan, Preben Wik, Olov Engwall, Sherif Abdou
6. English language learning activity using spoken language and intelligent computer-assisted
   technologies. pdf
   Maria Fuentes, Meritxell Gonzalez
7. Assessing the Effect of Type-written Form-focused Dialogues on Spoken Language Fluency. pdf
   Magdalena Wolska, Sabrina Wilske
8. Improving transcription agreement of non-native English speech corpus transcribed by non-natives. pdf
   Hyuksu Ryu, Kyuwhan Lee, Sunhee Kim, Minhwa Chung

Session - Written text
Chair: Abeer Alwan

1. Speech Technology-based Framework for Quantitative Analysis of German Spelling Errors in Freely Composed Children’s Texts.pdf
   Kay Berkling, Johanna Fay, Sebastian Stuker
2. Identifying Targets for Syntactic Simplification. pdf
   Julie Medero, Mari Ostendorf
3. Poster pitch (8 x 3 min.)

Poster Session - CALL

1. A Generic Framework for Building Dialogue Games for Language Learning: Application in the
   Flight Domain.pdf
   Yushi Xu, Stephanie Seneff
2. Evaluation of a Mobile Language Learning System Using Language-Neutral Prompts. pdf
   Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon
3. A method for predicting stressed words in English Jazz Chants. pdf
   Ryo Nagata, Toshiaki Marueki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tatsuya Kitamura, Mikio Nakano
4. Effects of Language Learning Game on Korean Elementary School Students. pdf
   Kyusong Lee, Soo-Ok Kweon, Sungjin Lee, Hyungjong Noh, Gary Geunbae Lee
5. Semi-automatic Test Generation for Tandem Learning. pdf
   Manfred Klenner, Simon Clematide, Michi Amsler
6. Automatic Assessment of American English Lexical Stress using Machine Learning Algorithms. pdf
   Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel
7. Optimization of a Tutoring System from a Fixed Set of Data. pdf
   Olivier Pietquin, Lucie Daubigney, Matthieu Geist
8. A Vocabulary Acquisition Framework using Audio Books. pdf
   Meena Vundela, Swetha A.V.S.L.G and Kishore Prahallad

Oral Session - Spoken language
Chair: Anton Batliner

1. Readability index as a design criterion for elicited imitation tasks in automatic oral proficiency assessment. pdf
   Febe de Wet, Pieter Muller, Christa van der Walt & Thomas Niesler
2. Improving ASR processing of ungrammatical utterances through grammatical error modeling. pdf
   Helmer Strik, Joost van Doremalen, Janneke van de Loo, Catia Cucchiarini
3. Feedback in an ASR-based CALL system for L2 syntax: A feasibility study. pdf
   Stephen Bodnar, Bart Penning de Vries, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik, Roeland van Hout
4. For A Fistful Of Dollars: Using Crowd-Sourcing To Evaluate A Spoken Language CALL Application. pdf
   Manny Rayner, Ian Frank, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis, Pierrette Bouillon

Demo Session 1

1. Jidou Eiken Online Version: Using Automatic Speech Recognition to Motivate Young Leaners of English to Speak.
   Ed Whittaker, Teruyuki Honda
2. CASEC-WT: An Automatic Writing Tutor for Japanese learners of English
   Ed Whittaker, Mikko Vilenius, Shinya Sano, Ryo Nagata.
3. Integrated, interactive, and visualized teaching of writing and grammar: Prototypes of two ICALL tools.
   Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen
4. An Agent Based Competitive Translation Game for Second Language Learning.
   Isabel Trancoso, Wang Ling, Rui Prada
5. Listening Comprehension Games for European Portuguese.
   Thomas Pellegrini and Rui Correia
6. A French liaison learning system using TTS for Japanese students.
   Josafá de Jesus Aguiar Pontes and Sadaoki Furui
7. CALL at CLST
   Steve Bodnar, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Oral Session - Pronunciation
Chair: Mariko Kondo

1. Identifying Confusable Contexts for Automatic Generation of Activities in Second Language Pronunciation Training. pdf
   Oscar Saz, Maxine Eskenazi
2. Statistical Machine Translation Framework for Modeling Phonological Errors in Computer
   Assisted Pronunciation Training System. pdf
   Theban Stanley, Kadri Hacioglu, Bryan Pellom
3. Acoustic Analysis of Postvocalic /l/ in Chinese Learners of German in the Context of an Overall
   Perception Experiment. pdf
   Oliver Jokisch, Hongwei Ding, Rüdiger Hoffmann
4. Dealing with L1 background and L2 dialects in Norwegian CAPT. pdf
   Olaf Husby, Åsta Øvregaard, Preben Wik, Øyvind Bech, Egil Albertsen, Sissel Nefzaoui, Eli
   Skarpnes, Jacques Koreman

Oral Session - L2 Speech annotation
Chair: Isabel Troncoso

1. How Many Labellers Revisited – Naıves, Experts, and Real Experts. pdf
   Florian Hönig, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth
2. Analysis of L2 English Speech Corpus by Automatic Phoneme Alignment. pdf
   Hajime Tsubaki, Mariko Kondo

Oral Session - Prosody
Chair: Jacques Koreman

1. Comparison of Native and Non-native Evaluations of the Naturalness of Japanese Words with Prosody Modified through Voice Morphing. pdf
   Shuhei Kato, Greg Short, Nobuaki Minematsu, Chiharu Tsurutani, Keikichi Hirose
2. Mandarin Tone Perception and Production by German Learners. pdf
   Hussein Hussein, Hue San Do, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hongwei Ding, Qianyong Gao, Guoping Hue, Si Wei and Zhao Chao
3. What visual feedback should a reading tutor give children on their oral reading prosody? pdf
   Sunayana Sitaram, Jack Mostow, Yuanpeng Li, Anders Weinstein, David Yen, Joe Valeri

Demo Session 2

1. A Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training System for German Learners of Mandarin.
   Hussein Hussein, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Marijo Mateljan, Hue San Do, Qianyong Gao, Guoping Hue, Si Wei and Zhao Chao
2. Toward a real-time and speaker-adapted system of visual articulatory feedback.
   Thomas Hueber, Pierre Badin, Atef Ben Youssef, Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei
3. Versant Professional Test: a four skill automated scoring system in English
   Jian Cheng
4. Wizard Of Oz Tool for Spoken Dialog-base Lanugage Learning game
   Kyusong Lee, Jinsik Lee, Jonghoon Lee, Hae-Ri Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
5. CALL-SLT: An Automatic Speech-Enabled Conversation Partner On The Web
   Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Nikos Tsourakis, Johanna Gerlach, Claudia Baur, Sonia Halimi, Matthew Fuchs, Ian Frank, Cathy Chua
6. WinPitchW7 LTL, an innovative software tool for computer assisted language learning.
   Philippe Martin
7. dod - Dialogue of the Day
   Florian Hönig and Anton Batliner

Closing Session

SLaTE assembly