Welcome to ICALL Research at OSU

The Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning (ICALL) Research Group at The Ohio State University is an interdisciplinary research community made up of faculty and graduate students from several departments including Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, German Languages and Literatures, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and English.

Research in ICALL integrates natural language processing into a computer-aided language learning environment. For such research to be innovative, successful and sustainable, we believe that it needs to combine linguistic modeling, second language acquisition research, and pedagogical insights from foreign language teaching with representations and computational linguistic algorithms capable of integrating the information from these models.

The OSU ICALL group pursues that research agenda in research projects aimed at integrating ICALL into real-life teaching (TAGARELA), the development of authentic text ICALL (WERTI), and the integration of content assessment module into ICALL (CAM) as a step towards systems offering contextualized, meaningful activity types.

Looking beyond the local environnment, the group also organized a workshop and pre-conference courses on "Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (IICALL 2006)" in December 2006 in Columbus (cf. http://ling.osu.edu/icall/iicall) and regularly participates in CALICO, EUROCALL and related events (cf. talks & publications).

In 2008, we coorganized the Pre-Conference Workshop at CALICO'08 on "Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities", held March 18/19 in San Francisco.