Program

Program of the CALICO Pre-Conference Workshop on

Automatic Analysis of Learner Language:
Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities

 

Day 1				Tuesday, March 18
9:00	–	9:10		Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University) and Anne Rimrott (Simon Fraser University): Welcome
9:10	–	9:40		Nick Pendar and Anna Kosterina (Iowa State University, USA): The Challenges of Annotating Learner Language [slides]
9:40	–	10:10		Marzena Watorek (Université de Paris 8) and Aurelia Marcus (Sinequa): Formalizing the second language learner corpus by means of automatic analysis [slides]
10:10	–	10:30		Coffee
10:30	–	11:00		Trude Heift (Simon Fraser University) Goals and Challenges for the Standardization of Error Typologies in Parser-Based CALL [slides]
11:00	–	11:30		Michael Gamon, Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Jianfeng Gao, Alexandre Klementiev (Microsoft Research), Dmitriy Belenko (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group): Using Statistical Techniques and Web Search to Correct ESL Errors [slides]
11:30	–	12:00		Anne Rimrott, Trude Heift (Simon Fraser University): Classification Systems for Misspellings by Non-native Writers [slides]
12:00	–	1:00		Lunch
1:00	–	1:30		Mathias Schulze and Peter Wood (University of Waterloo): Analyzing Learner Texts [slides]
1:30	–	2:00		Ghazi Abuhakema, Anna Feldman, Eileen Fitzpatrick (Montclair State University): A New Arabic Interlanguage Database: Collection, Annotation, Analysis
2:00	–	2:30		Tony Berber Sardinha (Catholic University of Sao Paulo) and Tania Shepherd (Rio de Janeiro State University): Developing an online system for automatically identifying errors in Brazilian learner English
2:30	–	3:00		Coffee
3:00	–	3:30		Martí Quixal and Toni Badia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Exploiting unsupervised techniques to predict EFL learner errors [slides]
3:30	–	4:00		Joachim Wagner, Jennifer Foster, and Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University): Using Decision Trees to Detect and Classify Grammatical Errors [slides]
4:00	–	5:00		Poster Session: Stacey Bailey and Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University): Diagnosing meaning errors in short answers to reading comprehension questions [poster] Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University): On Diagnosing Word Order Errors [poster] Ana Díaz Negrillo and Salvador Valera (University of Jaén, Spain): Multi-level annotation with adjustable granularity in a corpus of learner English Markus Dickinson (Indiana University) and Chong Min Lee (Georgetown University): Korean Particle Error Detection via Probabilistic Parsing [poster] Paul G Doyle, Hong Huaqing (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): A Variety of `Errors’? Automated Analysis of Teacher and Pupil Talk in Singapore Classrooms [poster] Karin Harbusch, Gergana Itsova, Ulrich Koch, and Christine Kühner (Universität Koblenz-Landau): Toward accurate syntactic feedback in a writing lab for German-speaking elementary schoolers: A generation-based approach [poster] DJ Hovermale (Ohio State University): SCALE: Spelling Correction Adapted for Learners of English [poster] Olivier Kraif, Alexia Blanchard, Claude Ponton (LIDILEM, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France): Mastering noise and silence in learner answers processing: simple techniques for analysis and diagnosis [poster] Stela Letica (Universtiy of Zagreb, Croatia): Croatian Corpus of Learner English [poster] Diane Napolitano, Amanda Stent (State University of New York at Stony Brook): TechWriter: An individualized approach to writing assistance and improvement [poster] Hiromi Oyama, Yuji Matsumoto, Masayuki Asahara and Kosuke Sakata (Nara Institute of Science and Technology): Construction of an error information tagged corpus of Japanese language learners and automatic error detection [poster]
Day 2				Wednesday, March 19
9:00	–	9:30		Heather Hilton (Université de Savoie): Annotation and analyses of temporal aspects of spoken fluency [slides]
9:30	–	10:00		Su-Youn Yoon, Lisa Pierce, Amanda Huensch, Eric Juul, Samantha Perkins, Richard Sproat, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Construction of a rated speech corpus of L2 learners’ speech [slides]
10:00	–	10:30		Deryle Lonsdale, C. Ray Graham, Casey Kennington, Aaron Johnson, Jeremiah McGhee (Brigham Young University): Scoring an Oral Language Test Using Automatic Speech Recognition [slides]
10:30	–	11:00		Coffee
11:00	–	11:30		Seok Bae Jang (Georgetown University), Sun-Hee Lee (Wellesley College), Sang-kyu Seo (Yonsei University): Annotation of Korean Learner Corpora for Particle Error Detection [slides]
11:30	–	12:00		Noriko Nagata (University of San Francisco): Robo-Sensei’s NLP-based Error Detection and Feedback Generation
12:00	–	12:30		Luiz Amaral (University of Victoria), Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University): Little Things With Big Effects: On the Identfication and Interpretation of Tokens for Error Diagnosis in ICALL [slides]
12:30	–	1:45		Lunch
1:45	–	2:15		Joel Tetreault, Yoko Futagi (Educational Testing Service), Martin Chodorow (Hunter College): Reliability of Human Annotation of Usage Errors in Learner Text [slides]
2:15	–	2:45		Rachele De Felice and Stephen G. Pulman (Oxford University): Automatic detection of preposition errors in learner writing [slides]
2:45	–	3:15		Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University): Automatic Measurement of Syntactic Complexity in Second Language Acquisition [slides]
3:15	–	3:45		Coffee
3:45	–	5:15		Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service), Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University), Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research), Trude Heift (Simon Fraser University), Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University), Lisa Michaud (Wheaton College): Panel discussion on “Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: What’s the next step?”

A list of all abstracts, alphebetical by first author, can be found here.