Subject: natural language processing in computer - assisted language learning

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * natural language processing in computer - assisted language learning one - day conference umist , manchester , 9 may 1998 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * call for papers + + please forward to other people who might be interested . + + date and venue saturday 9 may 1998 at umist , manchester , uk . centre for computational linguistics , renold building , f5 . the conference is organised by the centre for computational linguistics in association with eurocall . programme committee allan ramsay , umist tony hartley , brighton bernd rueschoff , karslruhe christoph zaehner , cambridge organisers marie - jose hamel , umist mathias schulze , umist aims natural language processing ( nlp ) tools and techniques are used in computer - assisted language learning ( call ) . this conference aims to look at their use and integration in call software . nlp tools supporting all areas of language learning and all linguistic skills can be discussed . who should participate ? researchers in call , computational linguistics , second language acquisition , linguistics and artificial intelligence who are interested in combining natural language processing and computer - assisted language learning . researchers who have designed or are designing call software which makes use of any kind of nlp tools ( tagger , parser , conceptual dictionary , speech synthesis and speech recognition systems , etc . ) . your contribution a presentation of 30 minutes which will be followed by 10 min . for questions . please send an abstract of about 500 words , by email ( see the address below ) . please include title of presentation , name , affiliation , contact address . deadline : 28 february 1998 possible topics - use of nlp tools in call programs - nlp techniques and sla - linguistics for nlp in call - notion of intelligence in call - assessment and feedback with nlp tools publication papers presented at this conference will be refereed for the recall journal . cost the conference fee is 40 pounds , to cover registration , light lunch and refreshments . accomodation can be arranged through the conference organisers . further details / questions / abstracts all correspondence regarding this conference should be sent to : mjhamel @ ccl . umist . ac . uk or mathias @ ccl . umist . ac . uk marie - jose hamel & mathias schulze department of language engineering umist po box 88 manchester , uk m60 1qd http : / / www . ccl . umist . ac . uk / whatsnew / nlpcall . html mathias mathias @ ccl . umist . ac . uk
