SLaTE Workshop
Technical Program
1. Technology Supporting Learning Experiments
Developing
pedagogically effective tutorial dialogue tactics: Experiments and a testbed, Kurt VanLehn, Pamela Jordan, Diane Litman
Doing
more than Teaching Students: Opportunities for CALL in the Learning Sciences, Ruth Wylie, Teruko Mitamura, Ken Koedinger, Jim Rankin
The Effect of Oral Repetition in L2 Speech Fluency: System for an Experimental Tool and a Language Tutor, Yuki Yoshimura, Brian MacWhinney
Using
Visual Speech for Training Chinese Pronunciation: An In-vivo Experiment, Ying Liu, Dominic W. Massaro, Trevor H. Chen,
Ho Leung Chan, Charles Perfetti
2. Language Learning Systems
Improving
the Authoring of Foreign Language Interactive Lessons in the Tactical Language
Training System, Joram Meron,
Andre Valente, W. Lewis Johnson
Speech
interaction with Saybot player, a CALL software to help Chinese learners of
English, Sylvain Chevalier
An
Interactive Interpretation Game for Learning Chinese, Chih-yu Chao, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang
DeSIGN:
An Intelligent Tutor to Teach American Sign Language, Ling Xu, Vinithra Varadharajan, Joyce Maravich, Rahul
Tongia, Jack Mostow
3. Dialogue I (Methods)
The
Effects of Speech Recognition Errors on Learner’s Contributions,
Knowledge,
Emotions, and Interaction Experience, Sidney K. D’Mello, Brandon King, Michal Stolarski, Patrick Chipman,
Arthur Graesser
Using
Transactivity in Conversation for Summarization of Educational Dialog, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Automatically
Measuring Lexical and Acoustic/Prosodic Convergence in Tutorial Dialog Corpora,
Arthur Ward, Diane Litman
A Combined Method for Discovering
Short-Term Affect-Based Response Rules for Spoken Tutorial Dialog, Tasha K.
Hollingsed, Nigel G. Ward
4. Natural Language Processing Applications for Education
Application
of Automatic Thesaurus Extraction for Computer Generation of Vocabulary
Questions, Michael Heilman, Maxine
Eskenazi
Text Simplification for Language Learners: A Corpus Analysis, Sarah E. Petersen, Mari Ostendorf
Dictionary Definitions: The Likes and the Unlikes, Anagha Kulkarni, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi
Using
Natural Language Parsers in Plagiarism Detection, Maxim
Mozgovoy, Tuomo Kakkonen, Erkki Sutinen
SourceFinder:
A Construct-Driven Approach for Locating Appropriately Targeted
5. Dialogue II (Systems)
Immersive
Second Language Acquisition in Narrow Domains: A
DEAL A Serious Game For CALL Practicing Conversational Skills In The Trade Domain, Preben Wik, Anna Hjalmarson, Jenny Brusk
Beetle
and LeActiveMath Tutoring Systems, Charles
Callaway, Myroslava Dzikovska, Elaine Farrow, Manuel Marques-Pita, Colin
Matheson, Johanna Moore
Supporting
Students Working Together on Math with Social Dialogue, Rohit Kumar, Gahgene Gweon, Mahesh Joshi, Yue Cui,
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
6. Challenges for Speech Technologies
Are Learners Myna Birds to the Averaged
Distributions of Native Speakers? A Note of Warning from a Serious Speech
Engineer, Nobuaki Minematsu
Speech
Synthesis for Educational Technology, Alan W. Black
Challenges for computer recognition of children’s speech, Martin Russell, Shona D’Arcy
7. Pronunciation and Fluency
Structural Representation of
Pronunciation and its Application for Classifying Japanese Learners of English,
N. Minematsu, K. Kamata,
Automatic Evaluation of Children’s Performance on an English Syllable Blending Task, Shizhen Wang, Patti Price, Margaret Heritage, Abeer Alwan
The
NativeAccentTM pronunciation tutor: measuring success in the real world, Maxine Eskenazi, Angela Kennedy,
SpeechRater™: A Construct-Driven Approach to Scoring Spontaneous Non-Native Speech, Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, Xiaoming Xi
Automatic Evaluation
of Reading Accuracy: Assessing Machine Scores, Jennifer Balogh, Jared Bernstein, Jian Cheng, Brent
Townshend