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Call for Papers<br>
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AIED 2009 Workshop on Question Generation<br>
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Held in conjunction with the<br>
2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education<br>
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Brighton, UK, 6-7 July 2009<br>
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</font><a href="http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009/</font></a><font size="3">
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Contact Email: vrus@memphis.edu <br>
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Question asking and question generation are important components in advanced<br>
learning technologies such as intelligent tutoring systems, inquiry-based<br>
environments, and game-based learning environments. This workshop is the<br>
second in a series of workshops that began with the NSF Workshop on the<br>
Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge held in September<br>
2008 (</font><a href="http://www.questiongeneration.org" target="_blank"><font size="3">www.questiongeneration.org</font></a><font size="3">) in Arlington, Virginia, USA. It solicits<br>
the involvement of participants across disciplines ranging from Artificial<br>
Intelligence in Education and Psycholinguistics/Discourse Processes to<br>
Natural Language Generation on cognitive and computational aspects of<br>
question generation.<br>
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Question asking has frequently been considered a fundamental cognitive<br>
process in the fields of education and cognitive science. The ideal learner<br>
is an active, self-motivated, creative, inquisitive person who asks deep<br>
questions and searches for answers to such thought-provoking questions. Real<br>
learners on the other hand are less inquisitive, and thus modern learning<br>
environments aim at modeling and scaffolding question asking as a way to<br>
boost learning gains in students. Question Asking/Generation can be<br>
introduced into various learning scenarios (e.g., dialogue-based or<br>
vicarious learning) through a Question Generation component. The Question<br>
Generation component can be semi-automated (e.g., it helps subject matter<br>
experts generate questions as part of the authoring tools used to create<br>
content in the form of curriculum scripts) or fully automated (currently,<br>
this is the case for simple types of questions such as multiple-choice<br>
questions).<br>
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CONTENT AND THEMES<br>
* Cognitive and computational models of Question Generation<br>
* Question taxonomies<br>
* Question Generation main task(s)<br>
* Question Generation sub-task(s)<br>
* Data collection and preparation<br>
* Representation language(s) for the input and output data<br>
* Annotation schemes and processes<br>
* Forms of evaluation (human-based vs. automatic vs. semi-automatic)<br>
* Evaluation metrics<br>
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FORMAT<br>
The workshop will be organized into two sets of sessions. In the morning<br>
sessions, regular paper presentations on general topics related to Question<br>
Generation will be scheduled. The afternoon sessions will be dedicated to<br>
discussions and presentations related to Question Generation in Intelligent<br>
Tutoring Systems.<br>
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PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
We invite submissions of short papers (4 pages including references) and<br>
long papers (up to 8 pages including references) that address topics<br>
relevant to Question Generation in general and to Question Generation shared<br>
tasks in particular. Authors should submit papers in PDF format using<br>
EasyChair (</font><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiedw2009" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiedw2009</font></a><font size="3">) by<br>
selecting "The 2nd Workshop on Question Generation" under the "New<br>
Submission" menu. Papers accepted in the workshop proceedings will need to<br>
follow the AIED formatting guidelines for workshop papers, following the IOS<br>
template (</font><a href="http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.questiongeneration.org/AIED2009</font></a><font size="3">) used for the main<br>
conference.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
Submission Deadline: April 16, 2009<br>
Author notification: May 5, 2009<br>
Final (camera-ready) Deadline: May 20, 2009<br>
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WORKSHOP CHAIRS<br>
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)<br>
James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
Delphine Bernhard (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Kristy Elizabeth Boyer (North Carolina State University, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Yllias Chali (University of Lethbridge, Canada)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Corina Forascu (Al. I. Cuza University, Romania)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Donna Gates (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Natália Giordani (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Art Graesser (University of Memphis, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Michael Heilman (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Tomasz Marciniak (Yahoo Research, UK)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Rodney D. Nielsen (University of Colorado, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Jose Otero (University of Alcala, Spain)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Juan Pino (Carnegie Mellon, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Paul Piwek (The Open University, UK)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania, USA)</font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="3">Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft, USA)</font><br>
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