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<p class="MsoNormal">************************************* <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Fifth International Workshop on Question Generation: "Why Ask? Question Purposes"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(http:/www.questiongeneration.org/QG2012)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To be held at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2012),
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chania, Crete, Greece, June 14-18, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Duration: half day (possibly extended to full day if merited by submission quantity and quality)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission deadline: March 30, 2012 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*********************************** <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OVERVIEW<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As the Question Generation homepage (www.questiongeneration.org) documents, question generation
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<p class="MsoNormal">is emerging as an active area of research, as demonstrated by the series of international workshops<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on this topic held at NSF in 2008, at AIED in 2009, at ITS in 2010, and at the AAAI Fall Symposia
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<p class="MsoNormal">in 2011; by the Shared Task Evaluation Challenge held in 2010 (corpus available via CODA project
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<p class="MsoNormal">page); and by the special issue of Dialogue & Discourse on Question Generation. However, work in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">this area has largely focused more on how to generate good questions than on why.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Intelligent tutoring systems can use questions to engage students, focus their attention, assess
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<p class="MsoNormal">their knowledge, and teach self-questioning, to list just a few examples. Automated or machine-aided<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">generation, evaluation, or selection of questions for a given purpose would therefore be of great
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<p class="MsoNormal">value to intelligent tutoring systems. Both existing and new technology and resources for natural
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<p class="MsoNormal">language processing provide opportunities to address these challenges.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QG 2012 will explore the diverse purposes that questions can serve, and their implications for
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<p class="MsoNormal">purpose-sensitive question generation, evaluation, and selection. In addressing how to generate,
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<p class="MsoNormal">evaluate, and/or select questions, submissions should therefore specify:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Target: What does it take to answer the questions? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Purpose: Why ask the questions? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Question type: In what form are questions output: cloze? wh-/how/so/...? find/compare/...?
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. Answer type: In what form are responses input: multiple choice? fill-in? open-ended? ...
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<p class="MsoNormal">5. Generation: How are questions, answers, and distracters constructed?
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. Modality: What channels convey questions and answers: menu/click/type/speech/graphics/...?
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<p class="MsoNormal">7. Assessment: How are responses scored? What feedback is generated, and how?
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<p class="MsoNormal">8. Evaluation: How well do questions serve their purpose? How to tell?
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<p class="MsoNormal">SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will be open to all ITS2012 attendees, but presentation will require paper submission<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">or organizer invitation. We invite submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages including references)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and long papers (up to 8 pages including references). All submissions must:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Include an abstract<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Be in .pdf format<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Follow the formatting guidelines for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Be submitted via EasyChair <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - Be submitted by March 30, 2012 at 11:59pm Hawaii time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here's how:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Download the LNCS template and formatting instructions from the Springer website: Go to
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and download the LNCS template for the
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<p class="MsoNormal">word processing software you would like to use. E.g., for Word 2007, download LNCS-Office2007.zip;
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<p class="MsoNormal">for Word 97-2003, download word.zip; for LaTex, download lncs.zip; and so forth. Note that most but
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<p class="MsoNormal">not all of these downloads are listed at the top right (notable exception: LNCS-Office2007.zip is
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<p class="MsoNormal">listed further down). You may ascertain which file to download for use with your preferred word
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<p class="MsoNormal">processor by clicking on the relevant "Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes ..... " link. For
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<p class="MsoNormal">Word 2007 this actually link gets you to the download link. Unzip the file and study the instructions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Prepare your paper with title, author information, abstract, and keywords, following the instructions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in the typeinst file that you downloaded. All submissions must be in .pdf format.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Submit your paper at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=QG2012 as follows. First, login using your
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<p class="MsoNormal">existing EasyChair account, or create a new account following the instructions on the site. (If you are
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<p class="MsoNormal">not logged in as author, you may need to change your role to author. You may do so by selecting the menu
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<p class="MsoNormal">item: QG2012 ' Change Role. Your current role is always shown at the top of the EasyChair screen.) Once
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<p class="MsoNormal">logged in, select New Submission to start a submission, and follow the instructions on the submission
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<p class="MsoNormal">screen. The abstract and keywords should help in assigning appropriate reviewers. To revise an existing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">submission, use Update information, Update authors, or Submit a new version, whichever applies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Itziar Aldabe, University of the Basque Country Spain <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tiffany Barnes, UNC Charlotte, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lee Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aiofe Cahill, Educational Testing Service, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Clark, Vulcan Inc., USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Joseph Grafsgaard, North Carolina State University, USA <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Heilman, Educational Testing Service, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pascal Kuyten, University of Tokyo, Japan <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ming Liu, University of Sydney, Australia <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sarah Luger, University of Edinburgh, UK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David McDonald, Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Mitchell, North Carolina State University, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rodney Nielsen, Boulder Language Technologies, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Piwek, Open University, UK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Svetlana Stoyanchev, The Open University, UK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sandra Williams, Open University, UK <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xuchen Yao, Johns Hopkins University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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