Text Box: Participants

The following presentations were made during the poster/demo session (first author only is listed)

· Sherif Abdou, Department of IT, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University. Giza, Egypt: Computer Aided Pronunciation Learning System Using Speech Recognition Techniques

· Leen Cleuren, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Developing an Automatic Assessment Tool for Children's Oral Reading     

· Michael Heilman, Carnegie Mellon University: Classroom Success of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Lexical Practice and Reading Comprehension

· Dominic W. Massaro, University of California, Santa Cruz: A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent for Tutoring Speech and Language Learning

· Jack Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University: Is ASR accurate enough for automated reading tutors, and how can we tell?

· Sarah E. Petersen, University of Washington: Assessing the Reading Level of Web Pages

· Joseph Tepperman, University of Southern California: Pronunciation Verification of Children's Speech for Automatic Literacy Assessment

· Chiharu Tsurutani, Griffith University: Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners

· Christopher John Waple, School of Informatics, Kyoto University: Prototyping a CALL System for Students of Japanese Using Dynamic Diagram Generation and Interactive Hints