7. Tagung (Essen)

1. Tag (intern)

Location: "Casino", Reckhammerweg 3, Essen Campus, Campus Map

10:00 - 10:30 - Discussion - Wrap Up & Beyond INDUS

10:30 - 11:00 - Ramon Ziai, Björn Rudzewitz, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Detmar Meurers: An update on triumphs and travails in developing the interactive workbook FeedBook

11:00 - 11:30 - Elma Kerz: Understanding proficiency and development in second language writing

11:30 - 12:00 - Cerstin Mahlow: Can linguistics describe what writers do?

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch Break

13:00 - 13:30 - Andrea Horbach, Torsten Zesch: Computer-Assisted Scoring of Listening Comprehension Exercises

13:30 - 13:50 - Osama Hamed, Torsten Zesch: The role of diacrictics in designing difficulty-adapted Arabic lexical recognition tests

13:50 - 14:20 - Dirk Scholten, Guido Martin

15:00 - Travel to Zeche Zollverein

16:00 - 18:00 - Guided Tour on Zeche Zollverein

18:00 - ??? - Dinner at MezzoMezzo http://www.mezzomezzo.de/zollverein/index.html

2. Tag (extern) - International Symposium on “Language Technology

for Individualized Language Learning and Assessment”

Tuesday, 02.10.2018, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Essen Campus, “Glaspavillon” (R12 S00 H12)

Organized by the DFG research network “INDUS - Individualized Language Learning”

Participation is free. Please register by 15.09. via mail (torsten.zesch -at- uni-due.de)

Preliminary Schedule

9:00 - 9:30 Opening and Introduction

Torsten Zesch & Andrea Horbach (Univ. of Duisburg-Essen)

9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk - Anastassia Loukina (Educational Testing Service)

“Algorithmic fairness and bias in educational applications”

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge)

“Deep learning for writing assessment and diagnostic feedback”

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:00 Poster Session & Coffee (14:30) - “Results from the INDUS network”

Stefanie Dipper, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Andrea Horbach, Torsten Zesch, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Elma Kerz, RWTH Aachen

Wolfgang Lenhard, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Cerstin Mahlow, Berner Fachhochschule

Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Universität Tübingen

Johannes Naumann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Anna Shadrova, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dirk Scholten, Universität Duisburg-Essen

15:00 - 16:00 Invited Talk - Ulrike Pado (Hochschule für Technik, Stuttgart)

“How hard can it be? Question difficulty and manual grading consistency for free-text questions”

16:00 - 17:00 Invited Talk - Margot Mieskes (Hochschule Darmstadt)

“Summarization Evaluation meets Short-Answer Grading”

17:00 Closing