Schedule

1. Tue, 6. Jan.: Organization/Introduction (syllabus)

General introduction: NLP in CALL

2. Thu, 8. Jan.: Nerbonne (2003)
   Afternoon: Intro to technical setup, Python Tutorial and Language teaching websites
3. Tue, 13. Jan.: Nerbonne (2003) continued
4. Thu, 15. Jan.: Reuer (Milca Reader, 2003)
   Afternoon: Overview of existing systems (Arantxa)

Introduction to Learner Errors and Feedback in iCALL

5. Tue, 20. Jan.: Mathias Schulze: Errors and Feedback: Some Theoretical Insights (local copy) (Alex)
6. Thu, 22. Jan.: Ron Cowan, Hyun Eun Choi, Doe Hyung Kim: Four Questions for Error Diagnosis and Correction in CALL (local copy) (Hyunsook)
   Afternoon: Introduction to mod_python and Exercise sheet #1

Issues and Approaches

7. Tue, 27. Jan.: FreeText
   Sylviane Granger: Error-tagged Learner Corpora and CALL: A Promising Synergy (local copy) (Jianguo)
8. Thu, 29. Jan.: FreeText (cont.)
   Sébastian L'haire and Anne Vandeventer Faltin: Error Diagnosis in the FreeText Project (local copy) (Xiaofei)
Afternoon: Exercise sheet #2
9. Tue, 3. Feb.: Cornelia Tschichold (Stacey): Lexically Driven Error Detection and Correction (local copy)
10. Thu, 5. Feb.: Liang Chen and Naoyuki Tokuda (Na'im): A New Template-Template-enhanced ICALL System for a Second Language Composition Course (local copy)
    Afternoon: Exercise sheet #3
11. Tue, 10. Feb.: Rodolfo Delmonte (Jihyun): Linguistic Knowledge and Reasoning for Error Diagnosis and Feedback Generation (local copy)
12. Thu, 12. Feb.: More on Delmonte's GETARUN
    Afternoon: Exercise sheet #4
13. Tue, 17. Feb.: Trude Heift (Vanessa, Arantxa): Multiple Learner Errors and Feedback: A Challenge for ICALL Systems (local copy)
14. Thu, 19. Feb.: More on Heift's work:
    • System overview: Trude Heift and D. Nicholson. Web Delivery of Adaptive and Interactive Language Tutoring. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 12(4), 310-325. (local copy)
    • Exercise types: Trude Heift. Intelligent Languate Tutoring systems for Grammar Practice.

    Afternoon: Discussion of final project, and exercise sheet 4 progress

15. Tue, 24. Feb.: Veit Reuer (Markus, Adriane): Error Recognition and Feedback with Lexical Functional Grammar (local copy)
16. Thu, 26. Feb.: Reuer's work continued
    Afternoon:
17. Tue, 2. Mar.: Daniel Naber (Jihyun): A Rule-Based Style and Grammar checker (website, paper, python code)

18. Thu, 4. Mar.:
    Afternoon:
19. Tue, 9. Mar.: Noriko Nagata (Xiaofei): BANZAI: An Application of Natural Language Processing to Web based Language Learning. CALICO Journal, 19 (3), 2002. 583-599.
20. Thu, 11. Mar.: ICICLE
    • Recognizing Syntactic Errors in the Writing of Second Language Learners", David A. Schneider and Kathleen F. McCoy. In Proceedings of Coling-ACL-98
    • ICICLE publications
    Afternoon:
Alternate: Anne Vandeventer Faltin: Natural Language Processing Tools for Computer Assisted Language Learning. Linguistik online 17, 5/03.

Links for the practical component of this seminar

• Unix Tutorials
• Python
  • Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python
  • How to think like a computer scientist
  • Crib sheet with some text: Python 2.2 quick reference (by John Shipman, New Mexico Tech)
  • A quick intro by Norman Matloff's
  • Tabular overview: Python 2.3 quick reference (by Richard Gruet)
  • What's new in Python 2.3 (by python.org)

• Web Forms, HTML
  • An instantaneous introduction to CGI scripts and HTML forms (by Michael Grobe, The University of Kansas)
  • HTML Quick Reference (includes section on forms) (by The University of Kansas)

• Mod_python
  • Tutorial:
    • A Quick Start with the Publisher Handler
    • An example form (modified version of the one in the tutorial) using form.html and form.py and .htaccess

  • Mod_python Manual

  • General background: Introducting mod_python