AIED-CORPUS 2011 - AIED-corpus 2011: WORKSHOP ON CORPUS ANALYSIS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE FOR BUILDING ITSs

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Category AIED-CORPUS 2011

Deadline: April 08, 2011 | Date: June 27, 2011-June 28, 2011

Venue/Country: Christchurch, New Zealand

Updated: 2011-03-18 14:28:18 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

To form a scientific basis for machine processing of dialogue - either engaging in dialogue or processing dialogue data - many research groups have collected and analyzed corpora of human-human dialogues. Corpus analysis for system construction differs from corpus analysis for other purposes, including various types of linguistic, sociolinguistic or pedagogical analysis, for two reasons. First, technology researchers must focus on methods that can be implemented via computer in real time. Second, intelligent tutoring domains are often technical domains of discourse where a high degree of precision is required.

All researchers involved in natural language corpus analysis for pedagogical systems, whether for a current or a prospective system, are invited to participate. Linguistic, statistical, machine learning and hybrid approaches are all welcome.

The following topics are of special interest, but other topics are welcome.

Input understanding: Parsing, chunking, information extraction, LSA, hybrid approaches

Discourse analysis: Topic choice

Dialogue management: Turn-taking

Text generation: Corpus analysis for a wide spectrum of generation algorithms

Spoken language processing: Speech understanding and generation

Relation of language and affect: Recognition of affect in student or tutor language

Correlation of natural language and other media, eg, video

Adaptation of generated text based on content, user model, or other factors

Automatic authoring: Generation of ITS dialogues from attested examples

Corpus collection: Issues involved in obtaining a representative sample of the desired text

Text analysis for CSCL: Characterizing and adapting to individual student contributions

Submission information

Short papers may range from 2-4 pages in length and include position papers, reports of work in progress, or a description of a proposed demo.

Long papers may be up to 8 pages long and include reports of completed work or analyses of issues in the field.

All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Papers must be submitted through EasyChair by Midnight (GMT) on March 29. Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the Springer LNCS format. Templates can be found in the Conference author Kit . To submit, Go to the EasyChair Workshop page.

Program Committee

Reva Freedman (Chair), Northern Illinois University

Charles Callaway , University of Haifa

Barbara Di Eugenio , University of Illinois at Chicago

Michael Glass , Valparaiso University

Pamela W. Jordan , University of Pittsburgh

Alistair Knott , University of Otago

Bruce McLaren , Carnegie-Mellon University

Andrew Olney , University of Memphis

David R. Traum , USC Institute for Creative Technologies

For further information

Please contact Reva Freedman at rfreedmanniu.edu.