Program AALL09
Program of the CALICO Pre-Conference Workshop on
Automatic Analysis of Learner Language (AALL’09)
From a better understanding of annotation needs to the development and standardization of annotation schemes
Day 1 | Tuesday, March 10 | |||
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1:15 | – | 1:30 | Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei Lu: Welcome |
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1:30 | – | 2:00 | Hagen Hirschmann, Amir Zeldes, and Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany): Multilevel Learner Corpora [ slides ] |
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2:00 | – | 2:30 | Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group), Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research), and Chris Brockett (Microsoft Research): Does Automated Feedback in a Proofreading Tool Help an English Language Learner? [ slides ] |
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2:30 | – | 3:00 | Øistein E. Andersen (University of Cambridge, UK): Combining Automated and Manual Techniques for Increased Efficiency and Accuracy in Corpus Error Annotation |
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3:00 | – | 3:45 | Break | |
3:45 | – | 4:15 | Chong Min Lee (Georgetown University), Soojeong Eom (Georgetown University), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana University): Towards Analyzing Korean Learner Particles [ slides ] |
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4:15 | – | 4:45 | Sylvie Thouesny (Dublin City University, Ireland): Increasing the Reliability of a Part-of-speech Tagging Tool for Use with Learner language [ slides ] |
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4:45 | – | 5:15 | Markus Dickinson and Joshua Herring (Indiana University): Morphological Analysis for Russian Learner Language [ slides ] |
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5:15 | – | 5:45 | John Lee (MIT), Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service), and Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY): Human Judgment on Article and Noun Number Usage |
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Day 2 | Wednesday, March 11 | |||
9:00 | – | 9:30 | Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Automated Pronunciation Scoring for L2 English Learners |
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9:30 | – | 10:00 | Ross Hendrickson and Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University): The use of NLP Technologies to Engineer Oral Proficiency Test Items [ slides ] |
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10:00 | 10:30 | Trevor Shanklin (San Diego State University): Students Naturally Speaking [ slides ] |
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10:30 | – | 11:15 | Break | |
11:15 | – | 11:45 | Su-Youn Yoon and Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Automated Speech Fluency Scoring Using Simple Speech Technology |
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11:45 | – | 12:15 | Jeremiah McGhee, Aaron Johnson, Ross Hendrickson, Meghan Eckerson, Malena Weitze, Ben Millard, Ray Graham, Deryle Lonsdale, and Dan Dewey (Brigham Young University): Improving Automated Oral Testing: Identifying Features and Enhancing Speech Recognition [ slides ] |
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12:15 | – | 1:30 | Lunch | |
1:30 | – | 2:00 | Joel Tetreault (Educational Test Service) and Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY): Towards Automatically Acquiring Models of ESL Errors |
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2:00 | – | 2:30 | Huaqing Hong and Jianzhen Zheng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Towards an Automatic Analysis of Metaphorization in Students’ Writings |
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2:30 | – | 3:00 | Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University): Automating Measures of L2 Syntactic Complexity [ slides ] |
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3:00 | – | 3:45 | Break | |
3:45 | – | 4:15 | Ana Díaz-Negrillo and Salvador Valera (University of Jaén, Spain): What Results Give which Strategies in Error Annotation? [ slides ] |
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4:15 | – | 4:45 | Seok Bae Jang (Brigham Young University), Sun-Hee Lee (Wellesley College), and Markus Dickinson (Indiana University): Annotation of Spelling Errors for Korean Learner Corpora [ slides ] |
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4:45 | – | 5:15 | Adriane Boyd (The Ohio State University): Ambiguous Errors in Annotation Schemes and Evaluation |
A list of all abstracts, alphabetical by first author, can be found here.