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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>ICCE 2014 Workshop on Natural Language Processing </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Techniques for Educational Applications (<b>NLP-TEA</b>)</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">with Shared Task on Grammatical Error Diagnosis for</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (<b>CFL</b>)<br><br>ICCE 2014: <a href="http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/" target="_blank">http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/</a><br>
Workshop website: <a href="http://ir.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/icce2014/nlptea/index.html" target="_blank">http://ir.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/icce2014/nlptea/index.html</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Shared task webpage: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea1/shared-task" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea1/shared-task</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px">For the past decade, research and development in the NLP (Natural Language Processing) community has advanced NLP techniques for educational applications. For example, the NLP community in north America organizes a series of workshops on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) to improve existing capabilities and to generate creative ways to use NLP in educational applications for writing, reading, assessment, and so on. The previous BEA workshops were in conjunction with promotive conferences in NLP area (either ACL or NAACL HLT). </span><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px"></p><div title="Page 1"><p style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In addition to research papers in the above workshops, several shared tasks were also organized, e.g. “Helping Our Own” (HOO) English grammatical error detection/correction competitions in 2011 and 2012, and Native Language Identification (NLI) competitions in 2013. Independent of the series of BEA workshops, the CoNLL-2013 shared task is on grammatical error correction for learners' English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In addition, there is a SemEval shared task on student’s response analysis. All of these competitions will increase the visibility of educational application research in the NLP community. </font></p>
<div title="Page 1"><p style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The ICCE 2014 in Japan will provide an ideal opportunity to bring together again influential as well as aspiring researchers in computer education area, to deliberate and interact on a range of research issues. The purpose of this workshop is to identify challenging problems facing the development of computer-assisted techniques for Asian language learning, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. To <span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">better meet this end, we also hold a competitive shared task on Grammatical Error Diagnosis, this year, for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). </span></font></p>
<p style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"><b>Shared Task</b></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">China’s growing global influence has prompted a surge of interest in learning Mandarin </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chinese as a foreign language (CFL)</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, and this trend is expected to continue. However, whereas many computer-assisted learning tools have been developed for learning English, support for CFL learners is relatively sparse, especially in terms of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">tools designed to automatically evaluate learners’ responses. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">The goal of this shared task is developing the computer-assisted tools to detect </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">several kinds of grammatical errors, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic">i.e.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">, <b>redundant word, missing word, word disorder, and word selection</b>. The input sentence contains one of defined error types. The developed tool should indicate which kind of error type is embedded in the given sentence. If the input contains no grammatical errors, the tool should return: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic"><b>sid, correct</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">. The output format should be </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;font-style:italic"><b>sid, error_type</b> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">if the input contains a grammatical error. Examples are shown as follows: </span></p>
<div style="line-height:24px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"><u>Example 1</u><u>: </u><br> Input: (sid=B2-1447-6</span><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">) 希望沒有人再被食物中毒<br>
</span><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> output: </span><span style="background-color:transparent">B2-1447-6</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Redundant</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><u style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent">Example 2</u><span style="line-height:1.5;text-decoration:underline;background-color:transparent">: <br>
</span><font style="line-height:24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> Input: (sid=</span></font><span style="line-height:24px;background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">C1-1876-2</span><span style="line-height:1.5">) </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><font style="line-height:24px">對社會國家</font><font style="line-height:24px">(有)</font><span style="line-height:24px">不同的影響<br>
</span></span><span style="line-height:1.5;background-color:transparent"> output: </span><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">C1-1876-2 Missing<br></span></span></font><u style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Example 3</u><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0)">: <br>
</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> Input: (sid=A2-0775-2</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">) 我起床很早<br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> output: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">A2-0775-2 Disorder<br></span></span><u style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Example 4</u><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0)">: <br>
</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> Input: (sid=B1-0110-2</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">) </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"><span style="line-height:27px">我會穿著一個黃色的襯衫<br>
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:27px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">output: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:27px">B1-0110-2</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:27px"> Selection</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important Dates</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The workshop</font></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5">Paper submission deadline for the workshop: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5">August 18, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Acceptance notification: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">September 2, 2014</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Final camera-ready:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">September 10, 2014</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent"> </font></font></li>
</ul><font color="#000000"><div style="color:rgb(40,55,105);line-height:24px;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:27px">The Shared Task</span></font></div>
</font><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Registration open for the shared task: May 5, 2014</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:27px">Release of tagged learners' corpus: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">June 12, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:24px">Registration close for the shared task: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:24px">July 15, 2014</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Release of dry run data for participants to familiarize themselves with </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">the testing process: July 21, 2014</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Release of test data for formal evaluation: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">August 4, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Return of the output for the test data for evaluation: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">August 6, 2014</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5"> </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Announcement of the evaluation results for all participants: August 8, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Report of the developed techniques and their results from the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">participants: August 18, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Feedback to the report from the organizers: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">September 2, 2014 </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">Final camera-ready report: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;line-height:1.5">September 10, 2014</span></font></li>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Workshop Co-organizers</font></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Yuen-Hsien Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University) </font></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)</span></font></li></ul><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Shared Task Co-organizers</font></div>
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Liang-Chih Yu (Yuen-Ze University) </font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan University)</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15.600000381469727px">Li-Ping Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)</span></font></li>
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