Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
Presentations
2025

Invited talks

 

2024

Invited talks

 

2023

Invited talks

 

  • Keynote Speaker on Adaptives Lernen und KI in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung: Potenziale und Herausforderungen technologiegestützten Lehrens und Lernens at the conference "Adaptives Lernen und KI in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung: Potenziale und Herausforderungen technologiegestützten Lehrens und Lernens", Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg, 27/28.11.2023.

     

  • Invited talk on KI als Deus ex Machina? Humbug! . . . aber höchste Zeit konkrete Bildungsherausforderungen mit dazu passenden KI Methoden anzugehen. Festsymposium zum 60. Geburtstag von Olaf Köller, IPN Kiel, 17. November 2023

     

  • Keynote Speaker on Scaling up SLA research in the classroom: Digitally supported randomized controlled field studies at the 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 32), University of Birmingham, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2023

     

  • Keynote Speaker on Where do digital tools and AI methods offer real added value for language education? at the 8.º Encontro da Rede de Ensino Português no Estrangeiro Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, July 24, 2023. (video)

     

  • Keynote Speaker on Linking Second Language Acquisition Research and Digital Language Learning at the 21st Annual Conference organized by the Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics, Tallinn, Estonia, April 27/28, 2023 (video recording of talk, slides, abstract)

     

  • Invited talk Künstliche Intelligenz in der Schule. Online Webinar, ZEIT für die Schule, March 28, 2023.

    (website with video, slides)

     

  • Invited talk Computerlinguistische Analyse sprachlicher Komplexität von Lese- und Lernertexten. Fakultätsübergreifende Ringvorlesung "Computer, Mensch, Sprache", Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle Sprachforschung/Informatik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, January 30, 2023

     

2022

Invited talks

 

  • Invited talk Künstliche Intelligenz und aufgabenorientiertes Fremdsprachenlernen: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen. Festakt 20 Jahre Innsbrucker Modell der Fremdsprachendidaktik (IMoF), Innsbruck, December 2, 2022 (slides)

     

  • Invited talk Digitale Werkzeuge und KI Methoden. Wo bieten digitale Werkzeuge und KI Methoden einen echten Mehrwert für den Fremdsprachenunterricht? Online Symposium "Transformation des Fremdsprachenlernens" des Goethe Instituts, October 25, 2022. (slides, video)

     

  • Invited talk Adaptives Lernen: Diagnostik mit förderlichen Konsequenzen 3. länderübergreifendes Austauschtreffen der Landesinstitute zu Individueller Diagnostik, October 7, 2022.

     

  • Invited talk Sprachliche Bildung Digital "Webbasierte Diagnostiik und Lernen im Fach Deutsch". Ministerium für Bildung Rheinland-Pfalz, September 16, 2022.

     

  • Invited talk Adaptives Lernen Netzwerktag Kooperationsschulen der Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg, September 16, 2022.

     

  • Invited talk Künstliche Intelligenz und Pädagogik. Reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren. Arbeitstagung der Landesinstitutsleitungen 2022 zum Thema “Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf Lernen in Gegenwart und Zukunft” Radebeul, 22.-24. Juni 2022

     

  • Invited talk Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Schule verändern kann together with Florian Nuxoll. ZEIT für Lehrer – Digitale Impulstage June 2, 2022

     

  • Invited talk Wie können digitale Werkzeuge das Lernen in heterogenen Gruppen unterstützen? Ringvorlesung "Didaktik in heterogenen Lerngruppen", Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem School of Education, January 13, 2022

     

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

  • Extending experimental research on the effectiveness of an Intelligent Tutoring System. A corpus study of authentic ESL student essays with Kordula De Kuthy. 6th International Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2022), Padua, September 22.-24., 2022.

     

  • Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning with Haemanth Santhi Ponnusamy. BEA ambassador paper at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Durham University, UK, July 27-31, 2022.

     

  • Wo machen die sprachlichen Anforderungen von Texten und Aufgaben eigentlich einen Unterschied? [Where do the language demands of texts and tasks actually make a difference?] (abstract, slides) based on joint work with Gabriella Daroczy and Kordula De Kuthy. Interdisciplinary conference "Sprache als Schlüssel - wozu? Bildungserfolg im Fokus [Language as a key - what for? Focus on educational success]", Bamberg, March 17, 2022.

     

  • Von einem Framework zur personalisierten Bildung zur adaptiven Komplexitätsparametrisierung von Lernschritten in der ökonomischen Bildung [From a framework for personalized education to adaptive complexity parameterization of learning steps in economics education] (slides) based on joint work with Kordula De Kuthy. ALEE project workshop, Castle Hohentübingen, March 14, 2022.

     

  • Adaptive systems for real-life education need explicit domain and activity models and ways to generate them automatically (abstract, slides) based on joint work with Björn Rudzewitz and Martí Quixal. Symposium A-06: Differenzieren aber wie? Lehrer- und Computerbasierte Ansätze zur Realisierung adaptiven Unterrichts mit digitalen Medien [Differentiation but how? Teacher- and computer-based approaches for realizing adaptive teaching with digital media]. 9. GEBF Tagung 2022 "Alles auf Anfang? Bildung im digitalen Wandel" [Everything back to square one? Education in the digital transformation], Bamberg (online), March 9, 2022.

     

Conference/Workshop talks held by co-authors (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

  • The impact of ICALL practice on the EFL classroom: From individualized practice to communicative language use held by Carolyn Blume, with co-authors Diana Pili-Moss, Torben Schmidt, Lisa Middelanis, 19th Technology for Second Language Learning Conference (TSLL 2022), Iowa, US, October 10, 2022.
  • How do tasks impact the different domains of L2 linguistic complexity? held by co-author Zarah Weiss. 6th international Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2022), Padua, September 22.-24., 2022.

     

  • Using linguistic complexity to probe into genre differences? Insights from the multilingual SWIKO learner corpus held by co-author Zarah Weiss, with co-authors Nina Hicks and Thomas Studer. 6th international Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2022), Padua, September 22.-24., 2022.

     

  • Automatic exercise generation to support macro-adaptivity in Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems held by co-author Tanja Heck, EuroCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data, August 18, 2022.

     

  • Practice with a purpose. Development of a task-oriented learner dashboard held by co-author Leona Colling, with co-authors Ines Pieronczyk, Steve Bodnar, Heiko Holz, Caro Parrisius, Katharina Wendebourg, Caro Blume, Florian Nuxoll, Diana Pili-Moss. EuroCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data, August 18, 2022.

     

  • Enhancing EFL classroom instruction via an ICALL platform: effects on language development and transfer to tasks held by co-author Diana Pili-Moss, with co-authors Torben Schmidt, Carolyn Blume, Lisa Middelanis, EuroCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data, August 18, 2022.

     

  • Strengthening Form-Focused Practice in Task-Based Language Teaching Through Intelligent CALL held by co-author Carolyn Blume, with co-authors Torben Schmidt, Diana Pili-Moss, Lisa Middelanis, EuroCALL 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data, August 18, 2022.

     

  • Motivation und Übungsverhalten von Schüler:innen bei der längerfristigen Verwendung eines intelligenten Tutorsystems im Fremdsprachenunterricht held by co-author Ines Pieronczyk, with co-authors Caro Parrisius, Steve Bodnar, Leona Colling, Hanna Deininger, Heiko Hoz, Florian Nuxoll, Katharina Wendebourg, Ulrich Trautwein, Jahreskonferenz der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), March 9-11, 2022.

     

 

2021

Invited talks

 

  • Invited keynote Wie können digitale Technologien zu sprachlicher Bildung beitragen? (documentation incl. video) Jahrestagung BiSS-Transfer “Sprachliche Bildung digital”, Bremen, November 11., 2021.

     

  • Invited talk KI und Bildung: Können wir den Bildungs- und Fremdspracherwerb konkret voranbringen? (announcement) Impulse Kontrovers – Podiumsgespräche 2021 Hospitalhof Stuttgart, October 12, 2021

     

  • Invited keynote Wo kann die Digitalisierung konkret den Bildungs- und Fremdspracherwerb voranbringen? Haus der Sprache, Digitalkongress Baden-Württemberg, October 2, 2021

     

  • Invited transfer talk Von Analyse & Diagnose zu Fordern & Fördern. Workshop Englisch – Fördern und Fordern in Unter- und Mittelstufe ZSL, Bad Wildbad, September 21, 2021

     

  • Invited talk Mit KI reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren FeedBook: Konkretisierung eines Ansatzes für den Englischunterricht und Vision zum Hochskalieren in der Realität. Fachtagung Künstliche Intelligenz, Esslingen, Septmeber 6/7, 2021

     

  • Invited talk Erörterung von Vorschlägen für Eckpunkte einer Landesstrategie “KI in Schule und Lehrkräftebildung” – Initiierung eines Dialogs . Fachtagung Künstliche Intelligenz, Esslingen, September 6/7, 2021

     

  • Invited talk Mit KI im Bildungskontext reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren. AI2Teach: Individuelle Förderung auf der Basis einese erweiterten digitalen Lehr-Lern-Konzepts für den Fremdsprachenunterricht, Kultusministerium Abt. 3, Stuttgart, August 5, 2021

     

  • Invited workshop Einführung in die automatische Analyse von Schülertexten [Introduction to the automatic analysis of student writing]. mit Zarah Weiss. dieS Sommerschule, Schweiz, June 17/18, 2021.

     

  • Invited talk KI im Bildungskontext: Reale Herausforderungen der Schule adressieren. KI-Webkonferenz von ZSL, IBBW, Kultusverwaltung, June 9, 2021

     

  • Invited keynote Maschinelles Lernen und computerbasierte Sprachverarbeitung: Potentiale und Grenzen. Digitale GDCP-Schwerpunkttagung “ML und computerbasierte Textanalysen. Potentiale und Herausforderung für die Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik” IPN Kiel, May 6, 2021

    (Podcast with a discussion on the topic (in German): "Die spannenden Dinge bleiben den Menschen überlassen"

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Invited panels

 

  • Digitaler Kick-off Maschinelles Lernen zur Unterstützung des Kompetenzaufbaus im Bereich des naturwissenschaftlichen Argumentierens. IPN Kiel & Deutsche Telekom Stiftung. October 29, 2021

     

  • Mentoren-Workshop im Leibniz-Mentoring "Zwischenstopp auf halber Strecke", Leibniz Gesellschaft, Berlin, September 28, 2021

     

  • Konstituierenden Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates des Forschungsschwerpunktes D2L2 (Digitalisierung, Diversität und Lebenslanges Lernen -- Konsequenzen für die Hochschulbildung), FernUniversität in Hagen, May 20, 2021

     

  • Auftaktsitzung der Projektgruppe KI, ZSL, IBBW June 23, 2021

     

  • Rundgespräch Bildung in der Digitalen Welt, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), April 12, 2021

     

  • Experten-Workshop „KI@Schule – Zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“, mmb Institut, Trendstudie „Künstliche Intelligenz in der schulischen Bildung“ für die Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, February 25, 2021

     

 

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

  • Talk Learning Analytics und Adaptive Förderung Zur Konkretisierung des Potenzials für den realen Schulkontext mit Björn Rudzewitz und Martí Quixal. Haus der Künstlichen Intelligenz, Digitalkongress Baden-Württemberg, October 2, 2021

     

  • Talk Reading demands & language proficiency in foreign language learning An exploration of linguistic complexity modeling with Zarah Weiss. AERA Symposium "Text Comprehension: What We Know About the Dance Between Reader, Text, and Task in Reading Comprehension", April 12, 2021

     

  • Talk Sprachliche Komplexität im Unterricht Analyse der gesprochenen Sprache von LKs und SuS im Fachunterricht in der Primar- und Sekundarstufe. mit Zarah Weiss, Kim Lange-Schubert, Barbara Geist, ZGL-Kolloquium zum Themenheft „Gesprochene Lernerkorpora des Deutschen“, January 22, 2021

     

 

2020

Invited talks

 

  • Invited talk Intelligente Tutorsysteme für die reale Schule Das FeedBook für das Fach Englisch und die Vision adaptiver KI-basierter Lösungen für konkrete Bildungsdesiderate, Zentrum für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung, Stuttgart, December 16, 2020

     

  • Invited talk Adaptive, interaktive Förderung im Fach Englisch, IBBW, Stuttgart, October 19, 2020

     

  • Invited outreach talk Adaptivität als Potenzial digitaler Werkzeuge?", Vortragsreihe LEAD.schule, December 2. 2020

     

  • Invited short talk Intelligente Tutorsysteme für die reale Schule: FeedBook und die Vision adaptiver KI-basierter Lösungen für konkrete Bildungsdesiderate, KMK Lenkungsgruppe "Bildung in der digitalen Welt", December 2, 2020

     

  • Invited talk Konzepte derBinnendifferenzierung und Adaptive Aufgabengestaltung Workshop zum Adaptiven Lernen, Joachim Herz Stiftung, May 26/27, 2020

     

  • Invited Workshop Methoden zur digitalen Analyse sprachlicher Komplexität im Bildungskontext [Digital methods for analyzing language complexity in education] with Zarah Weiss. Jahrestagung des Mercator-Instituts "Hauptsache digital?! Sprachliche Bildung in der digitalisierten Gesellschaft", February 17./18., 2020

     

  • Invited Talk Wo können digitale Werkzeuge reale Probleme der Schule adressieren, basierend auf welchen Erkenntnissen der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung? Runder Tisch zum Lehrwerk 4.0 am Herder Institut, Universität Leipzig. February 6/7, 2020

     

 

2019

Invited talks

 

  • Computerlinguistische Methoden im Bildungskontext Workshop "Digitale Lernwerkzeuge", Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg, October 1, 2019.

     

  • Analyzing linguistic complexity – and then what?
    Keynote at EUROCALL 2019, Louvain-la-Neuve, August 29, 2019.

     

  • Digital tools for real-life foreign language teaching and learning.
    Bikaintasuna Euskal Ikasketetan IX. Euskara eta euskal kultura eremu digitalean. Miramar Palace, University of the Basque Country, July 10, 2019.

     

  • Developing broad computational linguistic analyses of linguistic complexity - and using them to explore adaptivity in theory and practice.
    Seminar of the Ixa research group. University of the Basque Country, July 8, 2019.

     

  • Computational Linguistic Analysis, Assessment, and Language Development -- Considering Language and Task.
    Keynote at the 16th EALTA conference, "Transitions in Language Assessment". (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), Dublin, Ireland. June 1, 2019.

     

  • Supporting individual practice with immediate feedback Motivation, design, and evaluation of an interactive workbook for English language learners (joint talk together with Kordula De Kuthy).
    Workshop "Digital Approaches to Teaching Historical Languages (DAtTeL). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 28. March 2019.

     

  • Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Digital tools and AI methods that matter for students, teachers, and researchers
    Keynote at the LEAD Retreat, Blaubeuren, 10. April 2019.

     

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

2018

Invited talks

 

  • Formative Rückmeldungen und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. KI für reale Herausforderungen der Schule Fachtagung "Künstliche Intelligenz - Chancen und Herausforderungen für Schule und Unterricht". Veranstalter: Zentrum für Internationale Bildungsvergleichsstudien (ZIB), IPN, Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen (IQB) und die Zeitschrift schulmanagement. Berlin, 30. November 2018.

     

  • How can we analyze the lingusitic complexity of texts? Zooming in on the elaborateness and variedness of language in a computational linguistic analysis
    Workshop "Texte verstehen - Neue Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf die Neugestaltung der Oberstufe ab Abitur 2021", Landesakademie für Fortbildung und Personalentwicklung an Schulen, Bad Wildbad. 9. October 2018.

     

  • Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung
    Opening of the "Bilingualism Matters" branch, University of Tübingen, 27. July 2018.

     

  • Was bietet die Digitalisierung für den Fremdspracherwerb? Interaktivität & Adaptivität: Lösungen für reale Probleme der Schule
    Landesinstitut für Schulentwicklung, Stuttgart, 11. Juli 2018.

     

  • Modeling the linguistic complexity of German texts. Integrating insights from research on readability, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics
    Computational Linguistics Colloquium, University of Potsdam. 2. July 2018.

     

  • Modeling the linguistic complexity of German texts. Integrating insights from research on readability, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
    "Wie misst man Textqualität im digitalen Zeitalter? Expertenworkshop zum Projekt MIT.Qualität, Universität Mannheim. 18. Juni 2018.

     

  • Modeling the linguistic complexity of language input and output - and linking the two.
    Distinguished Speakers in Language Science Colloquium, Department of Language Science & Technology and iDeaL (SFB 1102), Saarbrücken. 17. May 2018.

     

  • Analyzing learner corpora On annotation, task effects, and linguistic complexity analysis.
    Workshop "Corpus-based Approaches to Language Learning and Language Assessment". Universität Bremen. February 12, 2018.

     

  • Was bietet die Digitalisierung für den Fremdspracherwerb?
    Workshop "Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung im Englischunterricht", Landesakademie für Fortbildung und Personalentwicklung an Schulen, Bad Wildbad. 8. Februar 2018.

     

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

 

2017

Invited talks

 

 

2016

Invited talks

 

  • Do our textbooks foster language development? An exploration of linguistic complexity in Geography textbooks and student writing (partly based on joint research with Sowmya Vajjala, Karin Berendes, Doreen Bryant, Maria Chinkina, Zarah Weiss, and Xiaobin Chen)
    Symposium "Schlüssel zum Bildungserfolg: Sprachliche Kompetenzen fördern und bewerten", ITT, Universität Leipzig, 5. November 2016.

     

  • Evidence for language competence: Reflecting opportunities and challenges of diagnostic instruments, corpora and computational linguistic analysis, Workshop held with Barbara Geist at the Symposium "Schlüssel zum Bildungserfolg: Sprachliche Kompetenzen fördern und bewerten", ITT, Universität Leipzig, 5. November 2016.

     

  • Computational Linguistics in Langguage Learning and Teaching. What we've been up to and where we want to go
    Workshop "Analyzing Language: Teaching and Learning", Tromsø, Norway, 16. August 2016.

     

  • Integrating different complexity notions into a computational analysis of readability and proficiency (based on joint research with Sowmya Vajjala and Xiaobin Chen)
    BLRI Complexity Workshop, Aix-en-Provence, 28. June 2016.

     

  • Learning what the crowd can do: A case study on focus annotation (presentation together with Kordula De Kuthy, based on joint work with Ramon Ziai)
    LPL, Aix-en-Provence, 10. June 2016.

     

  • Analyzing focus in authentic data from an explicit task context (presentation together with Kordula De Kuthy, based on joint work with Ramon Ziai)
    BLRI/LPL, Aix-en-Provence, 9. June 2016.

     

  • Language Learning and NLP: Connecting Needs and Opportunities
    Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 22. April 2016.

     

  • Language Learning and NLP: Connecting Needs and Opportunities
    Kortrijk, Belgium, 21. April 2016.

     

  • Exploring linguistic complexity in readability analysis and L2 development (based on joint research with Sowmya Vajjala and Xiaobin Chen)
    University of Cambridge, UK, February 2, 2016.

     

 

2015

Invited talks

 

  • Detecting Errors in Corpus Annotation
    CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian), University of Tromsø, 23. September 2015.

     

  • Language in computer-mediated Education -- A glimpse at the world beyond string matching
    RESULT (Ressurssenter for undervisning, læring og teknologi), University of Tromsø, 21. September 21 2015.

     

  • Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity
    ILCC and HCRC Seminar, University of Edinburgh, Informatics, 4. September 2015.

     

  • Connecting Data and Theory in SLA - What can Computational Linguistics contribute and what are the challenges for that to happen?
    Symposium "Connecting data and theory: Corpora and Second Language Research", Lancaster University, 19. July 2015.

     

  • Annotating information structure: On integrating different sources of evidence
    Plenary at the Final Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure: Advances in Information Structure Research 2003 - 2015, Berlin, 8. May 2015

     

 

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

  • Learning what the crowd can do: A case study on focus annotation (paper presented by co-author Kordula De Kuthy)
    QITL6, Tübingen, November 4, 2015

     

  • Connecting Language Learning and Computational Linguistics - Some work done, lots more ahead
    Meeting of the INDUS (Individualized Language Learning) DFG Network, Duisburg, March 17, 2015

     

  • Analyzing focus in authentic data from an explicit task context (paper presented by co-authors Kordula De Kuthy and Ramon Ziai)
    The Division of Labor: A View from Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure and Processing (DoL 2015), Tübingen, January 23, 2015

    (abstract, slides)

     

  • Sprachliche Komplexität in Schulbüchern der Sekundarstufe I [Linguistic complexity in school books of secondary schools] (presented by co-author Doreen Bryant, joint work with Karin Berendes, Sowmya Vajjala)
    Workshop "Linguistische Komplexität – ein Phantom?", Rauischholzhausen, 1. Oktober 2015

     

  • Leseanforderungen in der Sekundarstufe: Ein Vergleich der linguistischen Komplexität von Schulbuchtexten [Reading demands in secondary schools: a comparison of the linguistic complexity of school book texts] (joint work with Karin Berendes, Sowmya Vajjala, Doreen Bryant)
    3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 13. March 2015

     

  • Grammatikverständnis von Kindern unterschiedlicher sprachlicher und soziökonomischer Herkunft [Grammatical abilities of children of different language and socioeconomic background] (joint work with Karin Berendes, Wolfgang Wagner and Ulrich Trautwein)
    3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 13. March 2015

     

  • Schülerbeurteilungen des Unterrichts: Bedeutung der Lesekompetenz und sprachlicher Anforderungsmerkmale [Student evaluation of instruction: Relevance of Reading Competence and linguistic demands] (joint work presented by Richard Göllner, co-authored together with Wolfgang Wagner, Eckhard Klieme and Ulrich Trautwein)
    3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 13. March 2015

     

 

2014

Invited talks

 

  • A roadmap connecting NLP research and language learning
    Invited talk at the third workshop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning at the Fifth Swedish Language Technology Conference, Uppsala University, 13.-14. November 2014.

     

  • On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Corpora. Modeling between surface features and linguistic abstraction.
    CLT Seminar Series, Centre for Language Technology, Gothenburg, 25. September 2014

     

  • Readability analysis as an experimental sandbox for exploring linguistic complexity
    MLT Seminar Series, Centre for Language Technology, Gothenburg, 25. September 2014

     

  • Readability analysis as an experimental sandbox for exploring linguistic complexity
    Department of Languages and Linguistics Tromsø, 19. September 2014

     

  • Readability analysis as an experimental sandbox for exploring linguistic complexity
    Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Saarbrücken, 17. July 2014

     

  • Learner language and natural language processing.
    Lecture organized by the Department of Linguistics and English Language, the Second Language Learning and Teaching Group (SLLAT), the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), and the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL), Lancaster University. 27. Mai 2014.

     

  • Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity.
    SLLAT/UCREL Seminar Series, Lancaster University. 28. Mai 2014.

     

  • On systematically characterizing learner language: a computational and corpus linguistic perspective
    Institute for Language and Speech Processing / “Athena” Research Centre Colloquium on Learner Corpora for less commonly taught languages: Design, processing and prospects for Second Language Acquisition and Education, Athens, Greece, 8. April 2014.

     

  • Zur automatischen Analyse der Lesbarkeit von Texten und Sätzen - und wie das potenziell bei der Textvereinfachung helfen kann
    Workshop "Text als Werkstück. Wege zu einer computergestützten Überarbeitung von deutschen Texten" im Rahmen der Reihe Deutsch 3.0 des Goethe Instituts. Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF), Frankfurt. 7. July 2014.

     

  • Analyzing learner corpora: Which categories for interlanguage?
    Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Lexikografie, Valenz- und Kollokationsforschung der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. 21. January 2014.

     

 

Conference/Workshop talks (talks at events with proceedings are not listed here, cf. the list of papers instead)

 

  • On systematically characterizing learner language A computational and corpus linguistic perspective
    DGfS Jahrestagung. AG 5: Categories and Categorization in First and Second Language Acquisition Marburg, 7. March 2014

 

2013

Invited talks

 

  • From recording the past to predicting the future?
    On the role and relevance of linguistic abstraction for corpus-based analysis
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    Plenary speaker at the Herrenhausen Conference “(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age”. Hannover, December 5, 2013
    (slides, audio available here)

     

  • Education Applications Analyzing Language Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann Schroedel Diesterweg Schöningh Winklers GmbH, Braunschweig, November, 25 2013

     

  • Where can computational linguistics contribute to (language) teaching and learning. Workshop "Virtualisierung von Bildungsprozessen [Virtualization of Educational Pocesses]". Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF), Frankfurt. July 9, 2013.
    (slides)

     

  • Comparing Meaning in Context Computational Linguistics Colloquium, University of Potsdam. January 21, 2013.

     

 

Conference/Workshop talks

 

  • Exploring CEFR classification for German based on rich linguistic modeling.
    (co-authored with Julia Hancke). Learner Corpus Research 2013. Bergen, Norway.

     

  • Word Formation Variation as Features for Native Language Identification (jointly presented with co-author Julia Krivanek). Learner Corpus Research 2013. Bergen, Norway.

     

  • On The Applicability of Readability Models to Web Texts (paper presented by co-author Sowmya Vajjala). The Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR). ACL, Sofia, August 8, 2013.

     

  • Combining Shallow and Linguistically Motivated Features in Native Language Identification (paper co-authored with Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai and Michael Hahn; poster presented by Niels Ott). Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013), Atlanta, Georgia. June 13, 2013.

     

  • Combining Shallow and Linguistically Motivated Features in Native Language Identification (paper co-authored with Serhiy Bykh, Sowmya Vajjala and Julia Krivanek; presented by Serhiy Bykh and Sowmya Vajjala). The 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. NAACL-HLT 2013, Atlanta, Georgia. June 13, 2013.

     

  • Focus Annotation for Short Answer Evaluation (poster presented by Co-Author Ramon Ziai). 35. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. 12.-15. Mörz 2013, Potsdam.

     

 

Other talks

 

  • Sprache entdecken [Discover language] Class (Neigungskurs) given with Kordula De Kuthy at the elementary school "Aischbachschule", Tübingen, March 20, 2013.
    (slides including sounds)

     

  • Language Learning and Computational Linguistics
    LEAD graduate seminar series, Tübingen, Feb 4, 2013.
    (slides, background reading: Meurers (2012); Dickinson, Brew, Meurers (2013, ch. 3)

 

2012

Invited talks

 

  • On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Corpora:
    Modeling between Surface Features and Linguistic Abstraction

    Plenary speaker at the IV Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus (CILC 2012),
    Jaén (Spain), 22-24. March 2012.

    (slides)

     

      Learner corpora as collections of language produced by language learners have been systematically collected since the 90s, and with readily available collections such as the ICLE (Granger et al. 2002) for English and FALKO (Lüdeling et al. 2005) for German there is a growing empirical basis on which theories about second language acquisition and the linguistic system can be informed and applications can be tested.

       

      While most research on learner corpora has analyzed the (co)occurrence of (sequences of) words or manual error annotation, tools for automatically analyzing large corpora in terms of linguistic abstractions such as parts-of-speech, syntactic constituency, or dependency are increasingly available. Similar to the discussion about the role of exemplars vs. prototypes in language, this situation raises the question when to consider surface forms as such and when linguistic categories abstracting and generalizing over surface forms are useful in a corpus-based analysis. In this talk, I want to illustrate the issue with some experiments from our current research, mostly from the domain of L1 identification, the automatic identification of the native language of a non-native writer.

       

      This talk is based on joint work with Serhiy Bykh and Julia Krivanek.

       

Workshop talks

 

  • NLP for Non-Canonical Language and Learner Language
    Panel presentation at the Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language Workshop NAACL-HLT, Montreal, June 8, 2012.

    (slides)

     

  • Definiteness Effects as Epiphenomena of Information Structure
    talk presented by Co-Author Kordula De Kuthy at AG 9: Definiteness Effects. 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 8. March 2012.

    (abstract, slides)

     

2011

Invited talks

 

  • Comparing Meaning in Context
    Språkbanken, Centre for Language Technology, Institutionen för svenska språket, Göteborgs Universitet,
    15. December 2011.

     

  • Comparing Meaning in Context
    Institut für Sprache und Information, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf,
    8. December 2011.

     

  • On Automatically Analyzing Learner Language (keynote speaker)
    "Learner Corpus Research 2011 (LCR 2011). 20 Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking back, moving ahead", 20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium),
    15-17. September 2011.

    (abstract, slides)

     

  • On Annotating Learner Corpora: Why? Which annotations? How?
    Symposium "What’s Hard in German? Structural Difficulties, Research Approaches and Pedagogic Solutions", Bangor University, 19. July 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Learner corpora have long been compiled and an increasing number of papers show that they can successfully be used to inform theories of second language acquisition and foreign language teaching practice. Yet, as soon as the research questions go beyond the acquisition of vocabulary and constructions with unambiguous surface indicators, the use of corpora typically involves significant manual analysis.

       

      In this talk, we explore the annotation of corpora and where it may be useful for identifying relevant sets of examples automatically. On the one hand, this involves fundamental conceptual issues, such as the question what it means for traditional linguistic classes and generalizations developed for native language, such as part-of-speech or dependency analyses, to be applied to learner language. On the other, there are practical considerations which deserve some discussion, such as methods for obtaining consistent annotation and for automatically finding annotation errors.

       

  • Comparing Meaning in Context (CoMiC).
    Université Paris 7, UFR d'Études Anglophone. March 25, 2011.

    (slides)

     

      How can meaning be compared and evaluated in realistic situations, in which ill-formed language or differences in situative knowledge or world knowledge make a complete analysis difficult or impossible? In this talk I report on our ongoing work in the CoMiC project (SFB833-A4). We are exploring which linguistic representations are effective and robust in a computational-linguistic comparison of the meaning of sentences and text fragments. We focus on learner answers to reading comprehension questions, for which we are collecting large authentic corpora. Using these task-specific corpora, we study the properties of questions and texts which support the comparison of the meaning of answers at different levels of analysis from surface forms to deeper linguistic representations.

     

  • On emergent linguistic characteristics in learner and translation corpora.
    Université Paris 7, UFR Études Interculturelles de Langues Appliquées (EILA). March 21, 2011.

    (slides)

     

      When formulating linguistic generalizations, one generally relies on a long tradition of linguistic analysis that has established an inventory of categories and properties to abstract away form the actual strings. Morphemes, words, constituents, and sentences as units and government, agreement, and selection as relations between them are examples for abstractions which have proven useful for expressing generalizations about native linguistic competence. Yet when investigating language in other contexts, the traditional linguistic units, categories, and properties are not necessarily well-suited for expressing the observed empirical generalizations. Gil (2001), for example, discusses field work as a process of unlearning the Eurocentrism of our linguistic traditions. In this talk we investigate related aspects of data-driven linguistic units and categories.

      In the first part, I ask what linguistic categories are appropriate and insightful for characterizing language as produced by second language learners. Such interlanguage is systematic but traces the path of acquisition of individual learner. We show that the traditional linguistic categories characterizing abstract linguistic competence of a native speaker is not an appropriate index into the space of interlanguage realizations and their systematicity which research into second language acquisition aims to capture.

      In the second part, I will explore the automatic identification of recurring strings in translation corpora (aligned bi-texts). By viewing the translation as a type of annotation, in this work in progress I investigate how the variation n-gram detection approach we developed in the DECCA project for detecting corpus annotation errors can be used to study the recurring units and the variation in their translation. In a sense one can view this approach as a data-driven induction of constructions supporting an exploration of the range of variation in translation and how it is conditioned by the linguistic material and its context of use.

     

  • On corpora and theoretical linguistics.
    DoSciLa 2011. Université Paris 7, UFR de Linguistique. March 18, 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Linguistic research has traditionally emphasized either the empirical or the theoretical aspect of the enterprise - but independent of the philosophical dispute between empiricism and rationalism about the nature of the connection between data and knowledge, it is clear that neither aspect exists entirely without the other: observation of data is shaped by prior experience and current research questions, and data is needed for establishing or falsifying any worthwhile theory. Leaving the philosophical dispute aside, we can thus ask how one can obtain data that is relevant for a particular theoretical issue. What is involved in translating theoretical research questions to evidence which can be found in corpora? And which role does the nature and quality of linguistic annotation of corpora play in this? In this talk, we discuss some of the general issues and explore them based on some case studies from the syntax of German.

     

  • Focus projection between theory and evidence: Towards using corpora for research linking syntax, prosody, and information structure.
    Corpus interoperability workshop. Université Paris 7, UFR d'Études Anglophones. March 11, 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Research over the past decade has established that the nature of the integration of a sentence into the discourse can provide explanations for constraints previously stipulated in syntax. But to be able to further explore and refine this line of research, it is essential to have an explicit model of the interaction of syntax, information structure, and intonation as part of a formal linguistic architecture. Research investigating the interaction of syntax, information structure, and intonation has traditionally been theoretically driven, with the syntactic F-marking approach of Selkirk (1995) serving as one prominent foundation. At the same time, recent work mostly driven by pragmatic and semantic considerations has questioned the very foundation of such an approach. This includes the claim that focus projection as the fundamental means of connecting the focus exponent (the word carrying the nuclear pitch accent) and the semantically interpreted focus element is not needed at all (Roberts, 2006; Kadmon, 2006, 2009), or that it is not subject to syntactic constraints (Büring, 2006; Fanselow, 2008). Importantly, the new approaches do not just differ in terms of their theoretical interpretation, but they also make claims about a fundamentally different empirical landscape. In this joint work with Kordula De Kuthy, we want to bring together and compare the theoretical predictions with two sources of empirical evidence. After reviewing the published experimental results relating to focus projection in English, we explore where prosodically annotated, syntactically parsed corpora can provide empirical evidence for or against the different conceptualizations of focus projection.

     

  • Detecting Errors in Corpus Annotation.
    LingLunch. Université Paris 7, UFR Linguistique. March 10, 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Large corpora that are annotated with various types of linguistic information are central for computational linguistics and arguably also of relevance to theoretical linguistics. They play a crucial role as training and testing data for a wide range of natural language processing algorithms, and they provide access to natural examples relevant for developing and testing linguistic theories. Yet, the "gold standard" annotations used for these purposes contain a significant number of errors, which have been shown to negatively affect both kinds of uses. As a step towards addressing this situation, we discuss an automatic method for detecting errors in annotated corpora that is generally applicable to corpora with a wide range of annotation schemes. The approach, developed in collaboration with Markus Dickinson and Adriane Boyd in the project DECCA, is based on the basic idea that data recurring within a comparable context should be annotated the same way in all occurrences. Variation in the annotation within similar contexts thus is likely to be erroneous. We demonstrate the applicability of this variation n-gram method by illustrating that it can detect errors with high precision for a range of annotation types, including positional (part-of-speech), tree-based syntactic, discontinuous syntactic, and dependency annotation.

     

  • On Automatically Analyzing Learner Language: Interpreting Form and Meaning in Context.
    Colloquium of the Research Center for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL), University of Cambridge, 8. February 2011.

    (slides)

     

      The automatic analysis of learner language can play a role in the annotation of learner corpora and in intelligent language tutoring systems. In this talk, I first want to raise some questions about the nature of the linguistic categories which are appropriate for learner language under different perspectives, and which role the context, explicit tasks, and learner modeling play for the interpretation of learner language. Then the talk moves from analyzing form to evaluating aspects of meaning. I discuss our work in the CoMiC project on automatically evaluating the meaning of learner answers to reading comprehension questions, for which we explore which linguistic representations and comparison strategies are effective and robust enough to evaluate meaning in the face of significant well-formed and ill-formed variation.

       

  • Analyzing learner language - a computational linguistic perspective: Why analyze learner language? modeling what? using which information sources?
    Séminaire du Laboratoire Parole & Langage (LPL), Aix-en-Provence, 21. January 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Texts produced by second language learners have long been collected in corpora and such corpora are successfully used in lexically based studies. Yet in contrast to the different types of linguistic annotation schemes which have been developed for other corpora, there so far is only little work on such linguistic abstractions for analyzing and annotating learner corpora. This talk explores aspects of linguistic modeling which could be relevant and the issues which arise when trying to apply them to learner corpora. Complementing the language explicitly given in the corpus, we also consider the need for information about the task which resulted in the corpus and the learners who produced it for interpreting and annotating learner data.

       

  • Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners.
    Symposium on Corpora in Teaching Languages and Linguistics (CTLL), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 6. Jan. 2011.

    (slides)

     

      Second language acquisition research since the 80s has established that awareness of language categories and forms is important for an adult learner to successfully acquire a foreign language. Addressing that need, Sharwood Smith (1993) argued for the use of consciousness raising strategies drawing the learner's attention to specific language properties. He coined the term input enhancement to refer to strategies highlighting the salience of language categories and forms.
      In this talk, we discuss the use of natural language processing (NLP) to provide automatic input enhancement of web pages. The pages can be freely selected by the learners based on their interests and using a regular web browser. Based on a Firefox add-on, the browser can automatically enhance language patterns which are known to be difficult for learners of English, such as determiners and prepositions, phrasal verbs, the distinction between gerunds and to-infinitives, and wh-question formation. The current prototype focuses on learners of English, but the underlying architecture can be used for other languages and we make it freely available.
      One can view such automatic visual input enhancement as an enrichment of Data-Driven Learning (DDL). Where DDL has been characterized by Tim Johns as an "attempt to cut out the middleman [the teacher] as far as possible and to give the learner direct access to the data", in our automatic input enhancement approach the learner stays in control, but the NLP uses 'teacher knowledge' about relevant and difficult language properties to make those more prominent and noticeable for the learner, and to support interaction with the language material.

       

Conference/Workshop talks

 

  • Integrating GIVENness into a structured meaning approach in HPSG
    talk presented by Co-Author Kordula De Kuthy at the Workshop on Information Structure and Formal Grammar at the 18th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Seattle, 23. August 2011

    (paper)

     

  • Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners
    Workshop on the Automatic Analysis of Learner Language III (AALL) at CALICO. Victoria, Canada, 18. May 2011.

    (slides)

     

  • What Can ICALL Do for You? Enhance Authentic Texts for Language Learners!
    Panel on "What Can ICALL Do For You?". CALICO 2011. Victoria, Canada. 20. May 2011.

    (slides)

     

Other talks

 

  • Kontext
    Presentation in Ringvorlesung "Text und Sprache: Theorien am Brechtbau (und Blochbau)". Tübingen, 31. May 2011.

    (slides)

     

2010

Invited talks

 

  • NLP and Language Learning: On Analyzing Learner Language and Analyzing Language for Learners
    GLiCom Seminar Series, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 26. October 2010.

    (slides)

     

      The idea of this talk is to characterize two NLP research agendas in the context of language learning. On the one hand, we take a look at an intelligent language tutoring system, TAGARELA, discuss the motivation behind the system and the automatic analysis of learner language in such systems, and sketch the need for content assessment and the shallow semantic analysis we are currently exploring. On the other hand, we discuss how NLP can foster language awareness through automatic input enhancement of texts on web pages selected by the language learner.

       

  • On Linguistically Analyzing Interlanguage
    NaTAL Workshop on NLP and CALL, Nancy, 18. Juni 2010.

    (slides)

     

Peer reviewed conference talks

 

  • Developing and Integrating ICALL Systems with Luiz Amaral, Flávia Cunha and Ramon Ziai
    CALICO 2010, Amherst, Massachusetts, 10. June 2010.

    (slides)

     

  • Enhancing Authentic Web Pages for Language Learners
    Paper co-authored with Ramon Ziai, Luiz Amaral, Adriane Boyd, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Vanessa Metcalf and Niels Ott. Fifth Workshop on the Innov. Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, NAACL, Los Angeles, 5. June 2010.

    (slides)

     

Workshop talks

 

  • On the Creation and Analysis of a Reading Comprehension Exercise Corpus: Evaluating Meaning in Context with Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai
    Workshop "Learner Corpora and Corpora for Learners", Conference on "Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies (MIMS)", SFB 538. Hamburg, 7. October 2010.

    (slides)

     

  • Compiling a Task-Based Corpus for the Analysis of Learner Language in Context
    Pre-Conference Workshop on Learner Corpora at ALOES 2010. Online via EVO at Paris, March 25, 2010

    (slides)

     

2009

Invited talks

 

  • Computerlinguistik ­ Unde venis? Quo vadis? Perspektiven auf die Entwicklung der Computerlinguistik bis ins Jahr 2019 Festakt zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Michael Hess. Universität Zurich, November 2, 2009. (slides)

     

  • On Annotating Learner Corpora: Some Recent Developments. with Ana Díaz Negrillo and Holger Wunsch. Corpus Annotation Workshop. Online via EVO at Paris, 28. May, 2009. (slides)

     

  • On the Annotation and Use of Learner Language Corpora. with Luiz Amaral. Invited Colloquium on ``Bridging Computational and Applied Linguistics: Implementation Challenges and Benefits'' at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL-09). 21. March 2009. Denver, Colorado. (slides)

     

  • How about Meaning in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning? CALICO-09 Panel on Successes and Challenges of ICALL for Learning, Teaching and Research. 12. March 2009. Tempe, Arizona. (slides)

     

  • Diagnosing meaning errors in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Seminaire Traitement Automatique des Langues et des Connaissances. LORIA, Nancy, Frankreich. 29. January 2009. (slides)

     

Workshop talks

 

  • Focus in German: Towards a Corpus-Based Study with Kordula De Kuthy. Workshop of the DFG-Network "Constraintbasierte Grammatik: Empirie, Theorie und Implementierung". Tübingen, October 9, 2009. (slides)

     

  • 1. Tübingen-Berliner Lernerkorpustreffen. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 15./16. Oktober 2009:

     

    • Diagnosing meaning errors in ICALL with Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai

       

    • WELCOME, the WEb-based Learner COrpus MachinE for decentralized Data Entry
      with Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai

       

    • Diagnosing Word Order Errors with Adriane Boyd

       

    • Annotation von Artikeln und Präpositionen in englischer und deutscher Lernersprache -- Einige Überlegungen
      with Adriane Boyd, Cornelius Fath, Stefanie Wolf, and Holger Wunsch

       

    • Authentic Text ICALL (ATICALL). Exercise Generation & Information Retrieval for Language Learning
      with Niels Ott

       

    • Towards Linguistic Annotation of Interlanguage. Conceptual and practical issues in POS analyzing the NOCE corpus with Holger Wunsch

     

2008

Invited talks

 

  • Diagnosing meaning errors in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Computational Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the International Post-Graduate College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems. Saarbrücken. 20. November 2008

     

  • On Annotating Learner Language: A Computational Linguistic Perspective. Informatización de la descripción lingüística aplicada a la diagnosis experimental del aprendizaje del inglés. Scientific Meeting. University of Jaén, Spanien. 9. Juni 2008. (slides)

     

Peer reviewed conference talks (without proceedings)

 

  • Tapping into the synergy between SLA, Foreign Language Instruction and Natural Language Processing in ICALL. Symposium on Instruction and Modeling in ICALL. AILA: 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. 25. August 2008. Essen. (slides)

     

  • Little Things With Big Effects: On the identification and interpretation of tokens for error diagnosis in ICALL. with Luiz Amaral. CALICO 2008 Preconference workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language Workshop. 19. March 2008. San Francisco. (slides)

     

2007

Invited talks

 

  • Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research. Indiana University Linguistics Club. 7. November 2007. Bloomington, Indiana.

     

  • On Using Corpora for Syntactic Research. Indiana University. Department of Linguistics. 7. November 2007. Bloomington, Indiana.

     

  • Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning - Connecting Pedagogical Needs, Linguistic Modeling, and Natural Language Processing. Current Trends in (Teaching) Computational Lingustics DAAD-Workshop. Freudenstadt, 18.-22. Juni 2007.

     

Peer reviewed conference talks (without proceedings)

 

  • Extending learner models for intelligent computer-assisted language learning beyond grammar. with Luiz Amaral. Fifth Annual Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL). Towards Adaptive CALL: Natural Language Processing for Diagnostic Language Assessment. 21. September 2007. Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa.

     

  • Putting activity models in the driver's seat: Towards a demand-driven NLP architecture for ICALL. with Luiz Amaral. EUROCALL 2007, Symposium on NLP in CALL. 5.-8. September 2007. University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus, Ireland. (slides, listen to talk)

     

  • Designing Learner Models for Intelligent Language Tutors. with Luiz Amaral. CALICO 2007. 22.-26. Mai 2007. Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. (slides)

     

  • On automatically evaluating answers to reading comprehension questions. with Stacey Bailey. CALICO 2007. 22.-26. Mai 2007. Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. (slides)

     

2006

Invited talks

 

  • Detecting Errors in Corpus Annotation. Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminars. (DCLRS, DCU/UCD/DIT/Trinity College), Dublin, Ireland. 13. Oktober 2006.

     

  • Exploring Interfaces and Issues in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. 12. Oktober 2006.

     

  • Towards a Treatment of Word Order Errors in Computer-Aided Language Learning. When To Use Deep Processing - and When Not To. Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, University of Haifa, Israel. 25. Juni 2006. (slides)

     

  • Using Natural Language Processing for Foreign Language Teaching: Pitfalls and Opportunities. Department of Linguistics Speaker Series. Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 25.April 2006.

     

  • TAGARELA: Connecting Linguistic Modeling, Natural Language Processing and Pedagogical Needs in Foreign Language Teaching. Panel on Innovation in Instructional Technology: Examples, Methods, People. Digital Union and Humanities Information Systems, Columbus, Ohio. 12. April 2006.

     

Peer reviewed conference presentations (without proceedings)

 

  • Using Foreign Language Tutoring Systems for Grammatical Feedback. with Luiz Amaral. EUROCALL 2006. Granada, Spain. September 4.-7. September 2006. (slides)

     

  • Exercise-Driven Selection of Content Matching Methodologies. with Stacey Bailey. EUROCALL 2006. Granada, Spain. 4.-7. September 2006. (slides)

     

  • Generating Web-based English Preposition Exercises from Real-World Texts. with Vanessa Metcalf. EUROCALL 2006. Granada, Spain. 4.-7. September 2006. (slides)

     

  • Where Does ICALL Fit into Foreign Language Teaching. with Luiz Amaral. CALICO 2006. 19. Mai 2006. University of Hawaii. (slides)

     

  • Language Awareness through Re-use of NLP Technology. with Luiz Amaral und Vanessa Metcalf. Pre-conference Workshop on NLP in CALL - Computational and Linguistic Challenges. CALICO 2006. 17. Mai 2006. University of Hawaii. (slides)

     

  • When to Use Deep Processing and When Not To - The Example of Word Order Errors. with Vanessa Metcalf. Pre-conference Workshop on NLP in CALL - Computational and Linguistic Challenges. CALICO 2006. 17. Mai 2006. University of Hawaii. (slides)