Tools and Applications

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Newsletter #12

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• A CALL system for learning preposition usage

John Lee

• B2SG: a TOEFL-like Task for Portuguese

Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Eduardo Ferreira, and Aline Villavicencio

• Creating Interactive Macaronic Interfaces for Language Learning

Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn, and Jason Eisner

• DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant

Salam Khalifa, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash

• Design and Development of the MERLIN Learner Corpus Platform

Verena Lyding and Karin Schöne

• Easy Questions First? Curriculum Learning for Question Answering

Mrinmaya Sachan and Eric Xing



• Joining-in-type Humanoid Robot Assisted Language Learning System

AlBara Khalifa, Tsuneo Kato, and Seiichi Yamamoto

• Learning Language Games through Interaction

Sida I. Wang, Percy Liang, and Christopher D. Manning

• Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials

Mrinmaya Sachan, Kumar Dubey, and Eric Xing

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Language Muse: Automated Linguistic Activity Generation for English Language Learners

Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein, John Sabatini, Kietha Biggers, and Slava Andreyev

• My Science Tutor – Learning Science with a Conversational Virtual Tutor

Sameer Pradhan, Ron Cole, and Wayne Ward



• Online Information Retrieval for Language Learning

Maria Chinkina, Madeeswaran Kannan, and Detmar Meurers

• Personalized Exercises for Preposition Learning

John Lee and Mengqi Luo

• SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners

Thomas François, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, and Anaïs Tack

• This is how we do it: Answer Reranking for Open-domain How Questions with Paragraph Vectors and Minimal Feature Engineering

Dasha Bogdanova and Jennifer Foster

• User Modeling in Language Learning with Macaronic Texts

Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn, and Jason Eisner

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Newsletter #11

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• Automated Speech Recognition Technology for Dialogue Interaction with Non-Native Interlocutors

Alexei V. Ivanov, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, and Jidong Tao

• Conversational Knowledge Teaching Agent that uses a Knowledge Base

Kyusong Lee, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Junhwi Choi, Sangjun Koo, and Gary Geunbae Lee

• Methods and Tool for Constructing Phonetically-Balanced Materials for Speech Perception Testing: A Development of Thai Sentence-Length Materials

Adirek Munthuli, Charturong Tantibundhit, Chutamanee Onsuwan, and Krit Kosawat

• Speech and language technologies for the automatic monitoring and training of cognitive functions

Anna Pompili, Cristiana Amorim, Alberto Abad, and Isabel Trancoso

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Newsletter #9

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• A framework for automated generation of questions across formal domains

Rahul Singhal, Martin Henz, and Shubham Goyal

• Automated Analysis of Text in Graduate School Recommendations

Michael Heilman, F. Jay Breyer, Frank Williams, David Klieger, and Michael Flor

• Bilingual Keyword Extraction and its Educational Application

Chung-Chi Huang, Mei-Hua Chen, and Ping-Che Yang

• Chinese Spelling Check System Based on N-gram Model

Weijian Xie, Peijne Huang, Xinrui Zhang, Kaiduo Hong, Jiang Huang, Bingzhou Chen, and Lei Huang

• Collocation Assistant for Learners of Japanese as a Second Language

Lis Pereira and Yuji Matsumoto

• Construct validity in TOEFL iBT speaking tasks: Insights from Natural Language Processing

Kristopher Kyle, Scott A. Crossley, and Danielle McNamara

• Contextual Recommendation of Educational Contents

Nidhi Saraswat, Hiranmay Ghosh, Mohit Agrawal, and Uma Narayanan

• DanProof: Pedagogical Spell and Grammar Checking for Danish

Eckhard Bick

• Data-Driven Analyses of Electronic Text Books

Ahcène Boubekki, Ulf Kröhne, Frank Goldhammer, Waltraud Schreiber, and Ulf Brefeld

• HANSpeller++: A Unified Framework for Chinese Spelling Correction

Shuiyuan Zhang, Jinhua Xiong, Jianpeng Hou, Qiao Zhang, and Xueqi Cheng

• InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant

Richard P. Gabriel, Jeffrey Nichols, and Jilin Chen

• Interactive Second Language Learning from News Websites

Tao Chen, Naijia Zheng, Yue Zhao, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, and Min-Yen Kan

• Introduction to a Proofreading Tool for Chinese Spelling Check Task of SIGHAN-8

Tao-Using Chang, Hsueh-Chih Chen, and Cheng-Han Yang

• Introduction to SIGHAN 2015 Bake-off for Chinese Spelling Check

Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Lung-Hao Lee, Li-Ping Chang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen

• Leveraging Multiple Views of Text for Automatic Question Generation

Karen Mazidi and Rodney D. Nielsen

• NTOU Chinese Spelling Check System in Sighan-8 Bake-off

Wei-Cheng Chu and Chuan-Jie Lin

• Salinlahi III: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Filipino Heritage Language Learners

Ralph Vincent Regalado, Michael Louie Boñon, Nadine Chua, Rene Rose Piñera, and Shannen Rose Dela Cruz

• Semi-automatic Generation of Multiple-Choice Tests from Mentions of Semantic Relations

Renlong Ai, Sebastian Krause, Walter Kasper, Feiyu Xum, and Hans Uszkoreit

• The “News Web Easy” news service as a resource for teaching and learning Japanese: An assessment of the comprehension difficulty of Japanese sentence-end expressions 

Hideki Tanaka, Tadashi Kumano, and Isao Goto

• Using Finite State Transducers for Helping Foreign Language Learning 

Hasan Kaya and Gülşen Eryiğit

• Using Natural Language Processing Technology to Analyze Teachers’ Written Feedback on Chinese Students’ English Essays

Ming Liu

• Tutorial on “Using Natural Language Processing Tools in Educational Data Mining”

by Scott A. Crossley

• Word Vector/Conditional Random Field-based Chinese Spelling Error Detection for SIGHAN-2015 Evaluation

Yih-Ru Wang and Yuan-Fu Liao

• WriteAhead: Mining Grammar Patterns in Corpora for Assisted Writing 

Tzu-Hsi Yen, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jim Chang, Joanne Boisson, and Jason Chang

• Your  Model Is Predictive —  but Is It Useful? Theoretical and Empirical Considerations of a New Paradigm for Adaptive Tutoring Evaluation

José P. González-Brenes and Yun Huang

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Newsletter #8

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• Oahpa! Õpi! Opiq! Developing free online programs for learning Estonian and Võro

Heli Uibo, Jaak Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Jack Rueter, and Sulev Iva

• Question Analysis for a Closed Domain Question Answering System

Caner Derici, Kerem Çelik, Ekrem Kutbay, Yigit Aydın, Tunga Güngör, Arzucan Özgür, and Gunizi Kartal

• Semi-automated typical error annotation for learner English essays: integrating frameworks

Andrey Kutuzov and Elizaveta Kuzmenko

• Taking the Danish Speech Trainer from CALL to ICALL

Peter Juel Henrichsen

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Newsletter #7

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• A Listenability Measuring Method for an Adaptive Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching System

Katsunori Kotani, Shota Ueda, Takehiko Yoshimi, and Hiroaki Nanjo

• A Tagging Editor for Learner Corpora Annotation and Error Analysis

Lung Hao Lee, Kuei Ching Lee, Li Ping Chang, Yuen Hsien Tseng, Liang Chih Yu, and Hsin Hsi Chen

• Developing a corpus-based paraphrase tool to improve EFL learners’ writing skills

M.-H. Chen, S.T. Huang, J.S. Chang, and H.C. Liu

• The Writing Pal Intelligent Tutoring System: Usability Testing and Development

Rod D. Roscoe, Laura K. Allen, Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, and Danielle S. McNamara

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Newsletter #6

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• A Survey of Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems

Mustafa Al Emran and Khaled Shaalan

• Automated Generation of Test Suites for Error Analysis of Concept Recognition Systems

Tudor Groza and Karin Verspoor

• DKPro Agreement: An Open-Source Java Library for Measuring Inter-Rater Agreement

Christian M. Meyer, Margot Mieskes, Christian Stab, and Iryna Gurevych

• FLELex: a graded lexical resource for French foreign learners

Thomas François, Nùria Gala, Patrick Watrin, and Cédrick Fairon

• From Teacher Professional Development to the Classroom: How NLP Technology Can Enhance Teachers’ Linguistic Awareness to Support Curriculum Development for English Language Learners

Jill Burstein, Jane Shore, John Sabatini, Brad Moulder, Jennifer Lentini, Kietha Biggers, and Steven Holtzman

• How to deal with students’ writing problems? Process-oriented writing support with the digital Writing Aid Dutch

Lieve De Wachter, Serge Verlinde, Margot D’Hertefelt, and Geert Peeters

• Improving Cloze Test Performance of Language Learners Using Web N-Grams

Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen, Anna Beyer, and Benno Stein

• KoKo: an L1 Learner Corpus for German

Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Lionel Nicolas, and Egon Stemle

• Language Editing Dataset of Academic Texts

Vidas Daudaravicius

• The WikEd Error Corpus: A Corpus of Corrective Wikipedia Edits and Its Application to Grammatical Error Correction

Roman Grundkiewicz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

• Turning garbage into a writing assistant

Serge Verlinde

• Vafa spell-checker for detecting spelling, grammatical, and real-word errors of Persian language

Heshaam Faili, Nava Ehsan, Mortaza Montazery, and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

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