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Call for Abstracts
1st European Workshop on Latent Semantic Analysis
in Technology-Enhanced Learning
Open University of the
The
29th & 30th of March 2007
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1 Description
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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.
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2 Paper submission
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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.
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3 Important Dates
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January 31st 2007: Abstract submission
deadline February 15th 2007:
Notification of acceptance
March 15th 2007: Registration closes 29th & 30th of March: Workshop
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4 Committees
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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
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5 Topics
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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
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6 Special Interest Groups
(SIG)
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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
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7 Contact
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In case of any questions
please contact:
Marco Kalz, M.A.
Educational Technology
Expertise Centre
Open University of the
NL-PO Box 2960
6401 DL
The
Telephone: +31-45-5762145
Mail:
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Chris Kew
CETIS