(apologies for cross-posting)
Second Call for Papers
The 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA15)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Friday, July 10, 2020
(co-located with ACL 2020)
https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
Submission Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2020, 11:59pm EST
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in
the ACL community with over 80 attendees in the past several years. The
growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of
researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest
Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has
191 members.
The workshop’s continuing growth highlights the alignment between
societal needs and technological advances. NLP capabilities can now
support an array of learning domains, including writing, speaking,
reading, science, and mathematics, as well as the related intra-personal
(e.g., self-confidence) and inter-personal (e.g., peer collaboration)
skills. Within these areas, the community continues to develop and
deploy innovative NLP approaches for use in educational settings. In the
writing and speech domains, automated writing evaluation (AWE) and
speech scoring applications, respectively, are commercially deployed in
high-stakes assessment and in instructional contexts (e.g., Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs) and K-12 classrooms). Commercially-deployed
plagiarism detection is also commonly used in both K-12 and higher
education settings. For writing, the focus is on innovations that
support writing tasks requiring source use, argumentative discourse, and
factual content accuracy. For speech, there is an interest in advancing
automated scoring to include the evaluation of discourse and content
features in responses to spoken assessments. General advances in speech
technology have promoted a renewed interest in spoken dialog and
multimodal systems for instruction and assessment, for instance, for
workplace interviews and simulated teaching environments. The explosive
growth of mobile applications for game-based and simulation-based
applications is another area where NLP has begun to play a large role,
especially for language learning.
NLP for educational applications has gained visibility outside of the
NLP community. First, the Hewlett Foundation reached out to the public
and private sectors and sponsored two competitions: one for automated
essay scoring, and the other for scoring of short response items. The
motivation driving these competitions was to engage the larger
scientific community in this enterprise. Learning @ Scale is a
relatively new venue for NLP research in education. MOOCs now
incorporate AWE systems to manage several thousand assignments that may
be received during a single MOOC course. MOOCs for Refugees have more
recently emerged in response to the current social situations. Courses
include language learning, and we can imagine that AWE and other NLP
capabilities could support coursework. Another breakthrough for
educational applications within the CL community is the presence of a
number of shared-task competitions over the past several years —
including four shared tasks on grammatical error detection and
correction. NLP/Education shared tasks have seen new areas of research,
such as the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing at BEA 11, Native
Language Identification at BEA 12, Second Language Acquisition Modelling
and Complex Word Identification both at BEA 13, and Grammatical Error
Correction at BEA 14. These competitions increased the visibility of,
and interest in, our field.
The 15th BEA workshop will have oral presentation sessions, large poster
session in order to maximize the amount of original work presented, as
well as an exciting invited talk by Mari Ostendorf. We expect that the
workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities
for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop
will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster
presentation. We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods,
including, but not limited to: automated scoring of open-ended textual
and spoken responses; game-based instruction and assessment; educational
data mining; intelligent tutoring; peer review; grammatical error
detection and correction; learner cognition; spoken dialog; multimodal
applications; tools for teachers and test developers; and use of
corpora. Specific topics include:
Automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across
multiple genres)
• Content analysis for scoring/assessment
• Detection and correction of grammatical and other types of errors
• Argumentation, discourse, sentiment, stylistic analysis, & non-literal
language
Intelligent Tutoring (IT), Collaborative Learning Environments
• Educational Data Mining: Collection of user log data from educational
applications
• Game-based learning
• Multimodal communication (including dialog systems) between students
and computers
Learner cognition
• Assessment of learners’ language and cognitive skill levels
• Systems that detect and adapt to learners’ cognitive or emotional
states
• Tools for learners with special needs
Use of corpora in educational tools
• Data mining of learner and other corpora for tool building
• Annotation standards and schemas / annotator agreement
Tools and applications for classroom teachers and/or test developers
• NLP tools for second and foreign language learners
• Semantic-based access to instructional materials to identify
appropriate texts
• Tools that automatically generate test questions
INVITED TALK
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington.
(Abstract coming soon!)
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2020, 11:59pm EST
• Notification of Acceptance: Monday, Monday, May 4, 2020
• Camera-ready Papers Due: Monday, May 18, 2020
• Workshop: Thursday/Friday, July 9/10, 2020 (TBD)
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this
year. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to eight (8)
pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long
papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so
that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short
papers of up to of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content
pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional
page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions.
Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their
system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting
the paper, please make sure to select either “full paper + demo” or
“short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission
page.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the
author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should
be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) …”.
We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You
should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper,
are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen
versions of this paper or discussed it with you.
We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/bea/
DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically:
Papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop
must:
• Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they
are being submitted.
• State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their
paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be
withdrawn from other conferences and workshops.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge
• Claudia Leacock, Grammarly
• Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
• Ildikó Pilán, University of Oslo
• Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge
• Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen
Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.works...@gmail.com
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Tazin Afrin, University of Pittsburgh
• David Alfter, University of Gothenburg
• Dimitris Alikaniotis, Grammarly
• Fernando Alva-Manchego, University of Sheffield
• Rajendra Banjade, Audible (Amazon)
• Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg
• Lee Becker, Pearson
• Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service
• Lisa Beinbron, University of Amsterdam
• Maria Berger, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
• Kay Berkling, DHBW Cooperative State University Karlsruhe
• Delphine Bernhard, Université de Strasbourg, France
• Sameer Bhatnagar, Polytechnique Montreal
• Serge Bibauw, KU Leuven; UCLouvain; Universidad Central del Ecuador
• Joachim Bingel, University of Copenhagen
• Kristy Boyer, University of Florida
• Chris Brew, Facebook AI
• Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge
• Chris Brockett, Microsoft Research AI
• Julian Brooke, University of British Columbia
• Christopher Bryant, University of Cambridge
• Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
• Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
• Andrew Caines, University of Cambridge
• Guanliang Chen, Monash University
• Mei-Hua Chen, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
• Martin Chodorow, City University of New York
• Leshem Choshen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Mark Core, University of Southern California
• Luis Fernando D'Haro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Vidas Daudaravicius, UAB VTeX
• Orphée De Clercq, LT3, Ghent University
• Kordula De Kuthy, Tübingen University
• Iria del Río Gayo, University of Lisbon
• Carrie Demmans Epp, University of Alberta
• Ann Devitt, Trinity College, Dublin
• Yo Ehara, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
• Noureddine Elouazizi, Faculty of Science
• Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service
• Youmna Farag, University of Cambridge
• Mariano Felice, University of Cambridge
• Michael Flor Educational Testing Service
• Thomas François, Université catholique de Louvain
• Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Eurac Research
• Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research
• Dipesh Gautam, University of Memphis
• Sian Gooding, University of Cambridge
• Cyril Goutte, National Research Council Canada
• Roman Grundkiewicz, University of Edinburgh
• Masato Hagiwara, Octanove Labs LLC
• Jiangang Hao, Educational Testing Service
• Polina Harik, NBME
• Homa Hashemi, Microsoft
• Trude Heift, Simon Fraser University
• Heiko Holz, LEAD Graduate School & Research Network
• Andrea Horbach, University Duisburg-Essen
• Renfen Hu, Beijing Normal University
• Chung-Chi, Huang Frostburg State University
• Yi-Ting Huang, Academia Sinica
• Radu Tudor Ionescu, University of Bucharest
• Lifeng Jin, Ohio State University
• Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Microsoft
• Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Osaka University
• Elma Kerz, RWTH Aachen University
• Fazel Keshtkar, St. John's University
• Mamoru Komachi, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica
• Kristopher Kyle, University of Oregon
• Ji-Ung Lee, UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
• Lung-Hao Lee, National Central University
• John Lee, City University of Hong Kong
• Chee Wee (Ben) Leong, Educational Testing Service
• Chen Liang, Facebook
• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
• Zitao Liu, TAL Education Group
• Peter Ljunglöf, University of Gothenburg; Chalmers University of
Technology
• Anastassia Loukina, Educational Testing Service
• Lieve Macken, Ghent University
• Nabin Maharjan, Audible (Amazon)
• Montse Maritxalar, University of the Basque Country
• James Martin, University of Colorado Boulder
• Irina Maslowski
• Ditty Mathew, Accenture
• Sandeep Mathias, IIT Bombay
• Noboru Matsuda, North Carolina State University
• Julie Medero, Harvey Mudd College
• Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen
• Michael Mohler, Language Computer Corporation
• Natawut Monaikul, University of Illinois at Chicago
• William Murray, Pearson
• Farah Nadeem, University of Wahington
• Courtney Napoles, Grammarly
• Diane Napolitano
• Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
• Huy Nguyen, LingoChamp
• Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Trinity College, Dublin
• Rodney Nielsen, University of North Texas
• Yoo Rhee Oh, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI)
• Robert Östling, Department of linguistics, Stockholm university
• Ulrike Pado, HFT Stuttgart
• Patti Price, PPRICE Speech and Language Technology
• Long Qin, Singsound Inc
• Mengyang Qiu, University at Buffalo
• Martí Quixal, Universität Tübingen
• Vipul Raheja, Grammarly
• Zahra Rahimi Pandora Media
• Taraka Rama, University of North Texas
• Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service; University of
California, San Francisco
• Hanumant Redkar, IIT Bombay
• Marek Rei, University of Cambridge
• Robert Reynolds, Brigham Young University
• Brian Riordan, Educational Testing Service
• Andrew Rosenberg, Google
• Alla Rozovskaya, City University of New York
• C. Anton Rytting, University of Maryland
• Keisuke Sakaguchi, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Katira Soleymanzadeh, EGE University
• Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Service
• Helmer Strik, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Jan Švec, University of West Bohemia
• Anaïs Tack, UCLouvain & KU Leuven
• Alexandra Uitdenbogerd, RMIT University
• Shalaka Vaidya, Research assistant
• Sowmya Vajjala, National Research Council, Canada
• Piper Vasicek, Brigham Young University
• Giulia Venturi, Institute for Computational Linguistics
• Tatiana Vodolazova, University of Alicante
• Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Yiyi Wang, UIUC; Boston College
• Shuting Wang, Facebook
• Zarah Weiss, University of Tübingen
• Michael White, The Ohio State University; Facebook AI
• Alistair Willis, Open University, UK
• Wei Xu, Ohio State University
• Yiqiao Xu, North Carolina State University
• Kevin Yancey, Duolingo
• Victoria Yaneva, NBME; University of Wolverhampton
• Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg
• Marcos Zampieri, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service
• Fabian Zehner, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information
in Education
• Haoran Zhang, University of Pittsburgh
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