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Second Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

8:45–9:00Opening Remarks
10:30–11:00Break
12:30–02:00Lunch
03:30–04:00Break
 Session 1
09:00–09:30Applications of Lexical Information for Algorithmically Composing Multiple-Choice Cloze Items
Chao-Lin Liu, Chun-Hung Wang, Zhao-Ming Gao and Shang-Ming Huang
09:30–10:00Automatic Short Answer Marking
Stephen G Pulman and Jana Z Sukkarieh
 Short Students Talks
10:00–10:10A Real-Time Multiple-Choice Question Generation For Language Testing: A Preliminary Study
Ayako Hoshino and Nakagawa Hiroshi
10:10–10:20Predicting Learning in Tutoring with the Landscape Model of Memory
Arthur Ward and Diane Litman
10:20–10:30Towards Intelligent Search Assistance for Inquiry-Based Learning
Weijian Xuan and Meilan Zhang
 Session 2
11:00–11:30Automatic Essay Grading with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
Tuomo Kakkonen, Niko Myller, Jari Timonen and Erkki Sutinen
11:30–12:00Using Syntactic Information to Identify Plagiarism
Ozlem Uzuner, Boris Katz and Thade Nahnsen
12:00–12:30Towards a Prototyping Tool for Behavior Oriented Authoring of Conversational Agents for Educational Applications
Gahgene Gweon, Jaime Arguello, Carol Pai, Regan Carey, Zachary Zaiss and Carolyn Rosé
 Session 3
02:00–02:30Direkt Profil: A System for Evaluating Texts of Second Language Learners of French Based on Developmental Sequences
Jonas Granfeldt, Pierre Nugues, Emil Persson, Lisa Persson, Fabian Kostadinov, Malin Ågren and Suzanne Schlyter
02:30–03:00Measuring Non-native Speakers’ Proficiency of English by Using a Test with Automatically-Generated Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
Eiichiro Sumita, Fumiaki Sugaya and Seiichi Yamamoto
03:00–03:30Evaluating State-of-the-Art Treebank-style Parsers for Coh-Metrix and Other Learning Technology Environments
Christian F. Hempelmann, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser and Danielle S. McNamara
 Session 4
04:00–04:30A Software Tool for Teaching Reading Based on Text-to-Speech Letter-to-Phoneme Rules
Marian Macchi and Dan Kahn
04:30–05:00Situational Language Training for Hotel Receptionists
Frédérique Segond, Thibault Parmentier, Roberta Stock, Ran Rosner and Mariola Usteran Muela