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Luiz Amaral

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Linguistics

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall , Room 404
Phone: (413) 545-4790
Email: amaral AT spanport.umass.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www.people.umass.edu/amaral/

 

Education

B.A. Letras, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
M.A. Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University

Select Publications

Amaral, Luiz and Detmar Meurers. From Recording Linguistic Competence to Supporting Inferences about Language Acquisition in Context. In Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning. Routledge. Forthcoming.

Amaral, Luiz and Detmar Meurers. Conceptualizing Student Models for ICALL. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on User Modeling. Corfu, Greece. 2007.

Feldman, Anna, Jirka Hana, Luiz Amaral, and Chris Brew. Tagging Portuguese with a Spanish Tagger. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction at the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Trento, Italy. 2006.

Find a complete list of publications and presentations at
http://people.umass.edu/amaral/papers.htm

Research Interests

Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL)
Second Language Acquisition
Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Computational Linguistics