Deadline Extension: First European Workshop on LatentSemantic Analysis in Technology Enhanced Learning

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                DEADLINE EXTENSION until February 15th
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                         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

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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. Extended deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th of February 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 31th 2007: Abstract submission deadline February 15 2007: Extended Deadline February 30th 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) Art Graesser (University of Memphis, Memphis, USA) 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)


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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 Netherlands
NL-PO Box 2960
6401 DL Heerlen
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-45-5762145
Mail: [email protected]

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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. Extended deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th of February 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 31th 2007: Abstract submission deadline February 15 2007: Extended Deadline February 30th 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) Art Graesser (University of Memphis, Memphis, USA) 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)


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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 Netherlands
NL-PO Box 2960
6401 DL Heerlen
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-45-5762145
Mail: [email protected]