[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: ACL-HLT Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-6)

[Joel Tetreault]

 			 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

 			      ACL-HLT 2011

      The 6th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building
 		       Educational Applications

 		Portland, Oregon, USA; June 24, 2011

 	http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/acl-bea6.html

 		 Submission Deadline: April 01, 2011




WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Research in NLP applications for education continues to progress using 
innovative NLP techniques - statistical, rule-based, or most commonly, a 
combination of the two. New technologies have made it possible to include 
speech in both assessment and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). NLP 
techniques are also being used to generate assessments and tools for 
curriculum development of reading materials, as well as tools to support 
assessment and test development. As a community we continue to improve 
existing capabilities and to identify and generate innovative
and creative ways to use NLP in applications for writing, reading, 
speaking, critical thinking, and assessment.

NLP-based educational applications continue to develop in order to serve 
the learning and assessment needs of students, teachers, schools, and 
testing organizations. Contributions to the educational problem space 
include: development of curriculum and assessment (e.g., applications that 
help teachers develop reading materials), delivery of curriculum and 
assessments (e.g., applications where the student receives instruction and 
interacts with the system), and reporting of assessment outcomes (e.g., 
automated essay scoring). The need for, and the rapid development of, 
language-based capabilities have been driven by increased requirements
for state and national assessments, and a growing population of foreign 
and second language learners.

In the past ten years, the steady growth in the area of NLP-based 
applications for education has prompted an increased number of workshops 
which typically focus on one specific aspect of NLP-based educational 
applications. In this workshop, we solicit papers from all subfields. The 
workshops on the "Innovative Use of NLP in Building Educational 
Applications" have continued to bring together all these subfields to 
foster interaction and collaboration among researchers in both academic
institutions and industry. This workshop offers a venue for researchers to 
present and discuss work in this area. Each year, workshop submission 
numbers and attendance grows, and the state of the research becomes more 
innovative and advanced. In the past two years, at NAACL/HLT 2009 and 
2010, the workshop received a record number of submissions and attendees. 
The 2011 workshop (consistent with previous workshops at ACL 1997, 
NAACL/HLT 2003, ACL 2005, ACL 2008, NAACL/HLT 2009, and NAACL/HLT 2010)
will continue to expose the NLP research community to these technologies 
as they continue to identify novel opportunities for the use of NLP 
techniques and tools in educational applications.

The workshop will solicit both full papers (8 pages plus 2 pages for 
references) and short papers (4 pages plus 2 pages for references) for 
either oral or poster presentation. We will give special attention to 
research that has taken into serious consideration the educational problem 
space into which their work fits. Topics will include, but will not be 
limited to, the following:

1) Automated scoring/evaluation for oral and written student responses
       * Content analysis for scoring/assessment
       * Grammatical error detection and correction
       * Discourse and stylistic analysis
       * Plagiarism detection
       * Machine translation for assessment, instruction and curriculum
         development


2) Intelligent Tutoring (IT) that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods
       * Dialogue systems in education
       * Hypothesis formation and testing
       * Multi-modal communication between students and computers
       * Generation of tutorial responses
       * Knowledge representation in learning systems
       * Concept visualization in learning systems

3) 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

4) Use of corpora in educational tools
       * Data mining of learner and other corpora for tool building
       * Annotation standards and schemas / annotator agreement

5) Tools 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 such as multiple
         choice or short answer
       * Processing of and access to lecture materials across topics and
 	genres
       * Adaptation of instructional text to individual learners' grade
 	levels
       * E-learning tools for personalized course content
       * Language-based educational games

6) Issues concerning the evaluation of NLP-based educational tools


7) Descriptions of implemented systems



SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We will be using the ACL-HLT 2011 Submission Guidelines for the BEA-6 
Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 
pages in electronic, PDF format (with up to 2 additional pages for 
references). This year, we also invite short papers of up to 4 pages 
(including 2 additional pages for references). Papers which describe 
systems are also invited to give a demo of their system.

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) ...".

Please use the 2011 ACL-HLT style sheet for composing your paper:
http://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission





IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 01, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2011
Camera-ready papers Due: May 06, 2011
Workshop: June 24, 2011



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Joel Tetreault, ETS, USA (principal contact: JTetreault at ets.org)
Jill Burstein, ETS, USA
Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group, USA



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Delphine Bernhard, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Jared Bernstein, Pearson, USA
Chris Brockett, MSR, USA
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Mark Core, Institute for Creative Technologies
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA
Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Foltz, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, USA
Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland
Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
Caroline Gasperin, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Kallirroi Georgila, Institute for Creative Technologies
Iryna Gurevych, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Na-Rae Han, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trude Heift, Simon Frasier University, Canada
Derrick Higgins, ETS, USA
Emi Izumi, NICT, Japan
Heng Ji, Queens College, USA
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ola Knutsson, KTH Nada, Sweden
John Lee, MIT, USA
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Annie Louis, University of Pennsylvania,
Nitin Madnani, ETS, USA
Montse Maritxalar, University of the Basque Country, Spain
James Martin, University of Colorado
Aurien Max, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Detmar Meurers, University of Tingen, Germany
Lisa Michaud, Merrimack College, USA
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Michael Mohler, University of North Texas
Jack Mostow, CMU, USA
Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University, USA
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington, USA
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA
Mihai Rotaru, TextKernel, the Netherlands
Dan Roth, UIUC, USA
Alla Rozovskaya, UIUC, USA
Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo, Canada
Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA
Jana Sukkarieh, ETS, USA
Svetlana Stenchikova, Open University, UK
Nai-Lung Tsao, National Central University, Taiwan
Monica Ward, Dublin City University, Ireland
Pete Whitelock, Oxford University Press, UK
David Wible, National Central University, Taiwan


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