Authoring Dialogue Systems for CALL: System architecture and resources
Speaker: Sabrina Wilske
Institution: Saarland University
Abstract:
In our presentation we will discuss the issues involved in authoring linguistic and dialogue resources for a modular system supporting role-play-like dialogue exercises for computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Our ultimate goal is to (i) provide learners with flexible dialogue exercises which facilitate practising interactive skills in a variety of typical communicative scenarios, and (ii) provide teachers and CALL content developers with an environment which would allow them to create and maintain resources needed for such exercises in an easy way. We present a dialogue exercise architecture whose modularity is motivated by the envisioned distribution of labour in resources authoring between language experts (linguistic resources) and knowledge engineering experts (domain models for the dialogue scenarios).
