2012 Dublin Computational Linguistics Seminar Series kicks off on 3rd Feb.

The first seminar in the 2012 Dublin Computational Linguistic Research Seminars (DCLRS) will be held on Friday, 3rd February 2012 at 4pm in L2.21 in the School of Computing, Dublin City University.

DCLRS provides the opportunity for computational linguistic researchers to share their current work with Dublin-based colleagues and friends. The series is presented by researchers at University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD); University College Dublin (UCD); Dublin City University (DCU); and Dublin Insitute of Technology (DIT). The 2012 Series is hosted by DCU.

Details of the 3rd February seminar, as follows:

Lingle : Creating the next generation of online language learning tools

Presented by:

Dr. John Kelleher (Applied Intelligence Research Center, Dublin Institute of Technology)
Dr. Brian Mac Namee (Applied Intelligence Research Center, Dublin Institute of Technology)
Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick (School of Art, Design and Printing, Dublin Institute of Technology)

Lingle (www.lingleonline.com) is a commercial web-based service designed for teachers of English as a second language. Lingle helps teachers automatically find and build complete lesson plans andm materials from authentic real news sources.

Apart from the standard keyword and topic searches Lingle also allows teachers to search for appropriate content by difficulty level (i.e., Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced) and by grammar point (e.g., first-conditional tense, etc.). The talk will present the Lingle system and some of the research it is based upon. It will also describe the experiences of the presenters in taking a research idea and developing a commercial product.