Montse Maritxalar

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Montse Maritxalar is member of the IXA Group, created in 1988. The IXA Group was created with the aim of promoting the modernisation of Basque through the development of computational resources for this language. In the last years, IXA has been involved in more than sixty projects (http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Proiektuak), and it collectively has produced more than 150 publications on NLP in the last five years (more than 220 from 1988), and has regularly participated in the organization committees of several national and international conferences:

Montse Maritxalar (PhD Computer Science, University of the Basque Country, 1999) is Associate Professor of Computer Science. She has been member of the Organizing Committees for SEPLN’90, CALISCE’96, CALISCE'03 and SEPLN'09. She was a member of the Organising Committee of the workshop named "NLP for Educational Resources" that was held in conjunction with the RANLP2007 Conference. The PhD program of the IXA research group includes the course "Language and Education" given by Montse Maritxalar and some members of the group on Computer Supported Learning (GALAN: http://galan.ehu.es/Galan/). Moreover, she taught a pre-symposium course before the Symposium of Social Communication (Santiago de Cuba, January of 2007) about the Application of Computational Linguistics in Education PLN_y_educacion.pdf.

The IXA group considers the development of language learning and educational resources as important. Currently, 3 PhD thesis projects are underway which are directly relevant to the mentioned research area. These are the areas of investigation of that thesis:

Error diagnosis and remediation
Automatic exercise generation
Learner corpora

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