Acknowledgements
We would like to thank
- The OSU Office of Research and the College of Arts and Science for funding the Innovation Grant Bridging the Gap between Research in Natural Language Processing and Individualized Language Instruction that supports the TAGARELA system on which the WERTi project is based.
- The Department of Linguistics for supporting Vanessa Metcalf's research in a variety of ways, such as a targeted investment fellowship and travel funding.
- Dickie Selfe of OSU Humanities Information Systems for creating the Student Technology Consultant program, as part of which Cory Shain and Chris Kovach joined our project as web designers.
- Jody Croley and Scott King of OSU Humanities Information Systems for being open to the project and Scott's very knowledgeable and friendly support in creating the Coldfusion web design prototype.
- Donna Long (OSU), Terence Odlin (OSU), and Alison Mackey (Georgetown) for helpful discussion of the SLA/FLT aspects.
- The participants of the OSU ICALL research group and the OSU CLippers computational linguistics discussion group for helpful feedback on our work.