HLT4LL: Programme

Note: The times below are South-African times.
For the Netherlands and Belgium subtract 1 hour.

Monday 11 November
morning – round table of experts
13:00 – welcome
13:20 – keynote Nick Ellis: 8 Principles that make for good Second Language Acquisition
14:10 – keynote Piet Desmet: NLP-enhanced CALL: challenges and opportunities
15:00 – coffee
15:30 – keynote Helmer Strik: ASR-enabled CALL: challenges and opportunities
16:20 – demos
18:00 – end

Tuesday 12 November
10:00 – keynote Mathias Schulze: Human Language Technology and Tutorial CALL—The Odd Couple?
10:50 – pres. Beuls: Constructional language models as building blocks for an intelligent language tutor [PDF]
11:10 – pres. Paulussen et al.: Automatic document enrichment for language learners [PDF]
11:30 – coffee
12:00 – keynote John Nerbonne: A CALL program for Runyakitara morphology
12:50 – pres. Prinsloo et al.: Interactive decision trees for teaching and learning of Northern Sotho colour terms [PDF]
13:10 – lunch
14:40 – keynote Maxine Eskenazi: Speech Technology and Language Learning
15:30 – pres. Penning de Vries et al.:Spoken Output and Corrective Feedback in an ASR-based CALL system [PDF]
15:50 – pres. Bodnar et al.: Learners’ motivational state in CALL practice: a new challenge for HLT-oriented CALL [PDF]
16:10 – coffee
16:40 – keynote Isabel Trancoso: HLT4LL in Portuguese
17:30 – pres. Drozdova et al.: GOBL: Games Online for Basic Language Learning [PDF]
17:50 – end

* all times are South African Standard Time (UTC +2)
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