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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Call for Papers</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">AIED 2009 Workshop on Question Generation</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Held in conjunction with the</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><a title="blocked::http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/" href="http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/" target="_blank">http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Question asking and question generation are important components in advanced learning technologies such as intelligent tutoring systems, inquiry-based
environments, and game-based learning environments. This workshop is the second in a series of workshops that began with the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge held in September 2008 (<a title="blocked::www.questiongeneration.org" href="https://ummail.memphis.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">www.questiongeneration.org</a>)
in Arlington, Virginia, USA. It solicits the involvement of participants across disciplines ranging from Artificial Intelligence in Education and Psycholinguistics/Discourse Processes to Natural Language Generation on cognitive and computational aspects of
question generation.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Question asking has frequently been considered a fundamental cognitive process in the fields of education and cognitive science. The ideal learner
is an active, self-motivated, creative, inquisitive person who asks deep questions and searches for answers to such thought-provoking questions. Real learners on the other hand are less inquisitive, and thus modern learning environments aim at modeling and
scaffolding question asking as a way to boost learning gains in students. Question Asking/Generation can be introduced into various learning scenarios (e.g., dialogue-based or vicarious learning) through a Question Generation component. The Question Generation
component can be semi-automated (e.g., it helps subject matter experts generate questions as part of the authoring tools used to create content in the form of curriculum scripts) or fully automated (currently, this is the case for simple types of questions
such as multiple-choice questions).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">CONTENT AND THEMES</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Cognitive and computational models of Question Generation</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Question taxonomies</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Question Generation main task(s)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Question Generation sub-task(s)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Data collection and preparation</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Representation language(s) for the input and output data</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Annotation schemes and processes</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Forms of evaluation (human-based vs. automatic vs. semi-automatic)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">* Evaluation metrics</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">FORMAT</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The workshop will be organized into two sets of sessions. In the morning sessions, regular paper presentations on general topics related to Question
Generation will be scheduled. The afternoon sessions will be dedicated to discussions and presentations related to Question Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">PAPER SUBMISSION</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">We invite submissions of short papers (4 pages including references) and long papers (up to 8 pages including references) that address topics relevant
to Question Generation in general and to Question Generation shared tasks in particular. Authors should submit papers in PDF format using EasyChair (<a title="blocked::http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiedw2009" href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiedw2009" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiedw2009</a>)
by selecting "The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation" under the "New Submission" menu. Papers accepted in the workshop proceedings will need to follow the AIED formatting guidelines for workshop papers, following the IOS template (<a title="blocked::http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009" href="http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009" target="_blank">http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009</a>)
used for the main conference.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">WORKSHOP CHAIRS</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Delphine Bernhard (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Kristy Elizabeth Boyer (North Carolina State University, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Yllias Chali (University of Lethbridge, Canada)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Corina Forascu (Al. I. Cuza University, Romania)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Donna Gates (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Natália Giordani (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Art Graesser (University of Memphis, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Michael Heilman (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Tomasz Marciniak (Yahoo Research, UK)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Rodney D. Nielsen (University of Colorado, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Jose Otero (University of Alcala, Spain)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Juan Pino (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Paul Piwek (The Open University, UK)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania, USA)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft, USA)</span></font></p>
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