REMINDER: Still places available CALL for PARTICIPATION The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003 http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 Organized by the University of Lille 3 For the 11th ELSNET Summer School we have chosen a topic of great relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor. + Audience and aims: We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into consideration The aims are: * to make the students familiar with the main principles and problems of language learning/teaching * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer assisted language learning * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer assisted language learning Participants are expected to have a general computational background and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or processing. After completion of the summer school participants should be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools, environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning (abbreviated CALL). All students attend the same full programme, except for the hands-on sessions, where students can sign up for either NLP or Speech oriented streams. In special student sessions students can present their own work. The presentations will be published on the ELSNET website. The working language of the Summer School will be English. + Fees: Category Late registration fee (euro) Students 140 Academic staff 280 Commercial organisations 560 ELSNET members are entitled to a 20% discount + Food and accommodation: The cost of accommodation (on campus) will be ca 10 euro per night for students. Lunch and evening meals will be provided during course days. + Registration, grants and other information: For detailed information about programme, registration procedures and deadlines, fees, accommodation, grant possibilities, venue, course and social programme, etc visit the ESS2003 website at http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 or send an email to the local organizers at elsnetadmin@univ-lille3.fr Creditcard payment is now possible. A limited number of grants (covering the cost of accommodation) may be available. Details and application forms can be found on the website. __________________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator, UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL phone: +31 30 253 6050, fax: +31 30 253 6000, email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org http://www.elsnet.org