Programme

Time (UTC+1)

Main track

09:00

09:10

Opening session

Chair: David Alfter

09:10

09:50

Invited talk 1: Thomas François and Damien De Meyere [Slides]

Chair: David Alfter

09:50

10:30

Invited talk 2: Nuria Gala [Slides]

Chair: Rodrigo Wilkens

10:30

10:50

Coffee break

 

Parallel session

Track 1

Chair: Barbara De Cock

Track 2

Chair: Núria Gala

10:50

11:10

Toward constructing a corpus with CEFR-based sentence level annotations  [Slides]

Satoru Uchida, Yuki Arase and Tomoyuki Kajiwara

Learning to Classify Sentences into CEFR Levels for Second/Foreign Language Learning

Kuan-Lin Lee, Jason S. Chang, Alison Chi and Shu-Hui Lee

11:10

11:40

Comparing IRT-based Word Difficulty from a Vocabulary Test Data Set and the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile for Assessing Readabiltiy of Scientific Texts

Yo Ehara

DAFLex: a CEFR-graded lexical resource for German as a foreign language [Slides]

Thomas Francois, Patricia Kerres, Damien De Meyere and Ferran Suñer Muñoz

11:40

12:00

The role of collocations in text quality:towards a CEFR-graded list of collocations  [Slides]

Rocío Cuberos Vicente and Elisa Rosado Villegas

Automatic assessment of spoken language proficiency based on three-stage learning

Kamel Nebhi, Bob Zhou, Farhad Nooralazadeh and Gyorgy Szaszak

12:00

12:30

Inducing CEFR levels for student skills and linguistic constructs from learner data

Jue Hou, Anisia Katinskaia, Giacomo Furlan, Ilmari Kylliäinen, Nataliya Stoyanova and Roman Yangarber

Grammar profiling for empirical research and teaching [Slides]

Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Yousuf Ali Mohammed and Elena Volodina

12:30

14:00

Lunch

 

Main track

14:00

14:40

Invited talk 3: Bill McDowell [Slides]

Chair: Elena Volodina

14:40

15:20

Invited talk 4: Elena Volodina [Slides]

Chair: Thomas François

15:20

15:40

Coffee break

 

Parallel session

Track 1

Chair: Ferran Suñer Muñoz

Track 2

Chair: Rémi Cardon

15:40

16:00

Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels [Slides]

Michael Flor, Steven Holtzman, Paul Deane and Isaac Bejar

Fine-tuning Auto-Regressive language models for Conditional Text Generation [Slides]

Vasileios Kalogiras, Quintus Roos and Sebastiaan Vergunst

16:00

16:30

Graded Word Family resource for L2 Swedish [Slides]

Elena Volodina, Yousuf Ali Mohammed and Therese Lindström Tiedemann

Comparing the validity of human-annotated CEFR labels from different sources using machine-learning classifiers:examples from Russian

Robert Reynolds

16:30

16:50

An automatic annotation toolchain to recognize, quantify and visualize occurrences of CEFR-graded vocabulary and grammar patterns in English learner texts [Slides]

Viet Phe Nguyen, Ye Yao, Andrea Horbach, Stefan Keller, Ronja Laarmann-Quante and Torsten Zesch

Investigating collocations in English essays written by different L1 learners across the proficiency spectrum

Jen-Yu Li, Thomas Gaillat and Elisabeth Richard

16:50

17:20

Compiling CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for Russian L2 learners based on 4 different sources of word frequency data [Slides]

Antonina Laposhina and Maria Lebedeva

Mapping Multi-word expressions to CEFR for French as a foreign language:PolylexFLE [Slides]

Amalia Todirascu, Thomas François and Marion Cargill

17:20

17:30

Closing session

Chair: David Alfter