Apologies for cross-posting FYI:- ************************************************************************ Call for Abstracts 1st European Workshop on Latent Semantic Analysis in Technology-Enhanced Learning Open University of the Netherlands Heerlen The Netherlands 29th & 30th of March 2007 ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 1 Description ************************************************************************ Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been successfully deployed in various applications to enrich learning and teaching with information-technology. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in the field in order to share knowledge gained within the distributed research about latent semantic analysis in educational applications, in particular from the context of the IST projects Cooper, iCamp, TenCompetence and ProLearn. In addition to the presentation of recent advances, the workshop will provide a platform for the formation of special interest groups to stipulate a joint research agenda and stimulate innovation and future developments. ************************************************************************ 2 Paper submission ************************************************************************ Participants who intend to present a talk are invited to submit an abstract via the conference website (http://homer.ou.nl/lsa-workshop07/). The workshop welcomes abstracts for up to 1500 words for the below mentioned topics. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 31st of January 2007. All abstracts will be reviewed by a member of the scientific committee. Accepted abstracts will be distributed to the workshop participants. After the workshop selected contributions will be asked for a special issue of a journal in the advanced learning technology field. ************************************************************************ 3 Important Dates ************************************************************************ January 31st 2007: Abstract submission deadline February 15th 2007: Notification of acceptance March 15th 2007: Registration closes 29th & 30th of March: Workshop ************************************************************************ 4 Committees ************************************************************************ Scientific Committee Benoit Lemaire (Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble, France) Fridolin Wild (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria) Gustaf Neumann (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria) Jan van Bruggen (Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands) Michael Berry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US) Rob Koper (Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands) Organising Committee Bas Giesbers (Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands) Marco Kalz (Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands) Fridolin Wild (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria) ************************************************************************ 5 Topics ************************************************************************ Educational technology applications of LSA, such as: Automated essay scoring & grading Summarization & writing assistance Feedback generation Tutoring & tutor support Question answering Learner modeling Enriching user profiles Matchmaking of user profiles Recommender-systems Peer finding & community formation Positioning & Placement of Learners Selection & sequencing of content Protocol analysis Gap analysis Task analysis Methodological issues for LSA in Educational Technology, such as: Corpus composition & preparation (sanitising, filtering, selection, seeding, domain modelling, ...) Beyond texts: LSA over triples, ... Optimisation of analysis and queries Statistical properties Mixed-methods & -techniques: Combining LSA with other techniques Evaluation and Validation ************************************************************************ 6 Special Interest Groups (SIG) ************************************************************************ The workshop wants to stimulate the setting up of special interest groups for research on LSA in education. The following SIGs will be established during the workshop: Future Lab and Problem Sharing Session: Shaping a Research agenda for LSA in Education Evaluation Forum for LSA in TEL: Joint infrastructure for testing, tuning, and evaluation plus creation of test-suites of re-usable data ************************************************************************ 7 Contact ************************************************************************ In case of any questions please contact: Marco Kalz, M.A. Educational Technology Expertise Centre Open University of the Netherlands NL-PO Box 2960 6401 DL Heerlen The Netherlands Telephone: +31-45-5762145 Mail: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************************ Chris Kew University of Bolton CETIS ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. 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