28.1542, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/Denmark

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Subject: 28.1542, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/Denmark

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:28:55
From: Helen Yannakoudakis [hy260 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: 12th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (at EMNLP 2017)

 
Full Title: 12th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (at EMNLP 2017) 
Short Title: BEA 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 08-Sep-2017
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Joel Tetreault
Meeting Email: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/emnlp-bea12.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 11-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The BEA Workshop, one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community,
is a leading venue for NLP innovation for educational applications. The 12th
workshop will have oral presentation sessions and a large poster session in
order to maximize the amount of original work presented. 

The workshop will also host a Shared Task on Native Language Identification
(NLI). NLI is the process of automatically identifying the native language
(L1) of a non-native speaker based solely on language that he or she produces
in another language.


Call for Participation:

NLI Shared Task 2017:

The workshop will also host a Shared Task on Native Language Identification
(NLI). NLI is the process of automatically identifying the native language
(L1) of a non-native speaker based solely on language that he or she produces
in another language. Two previous shared tasks on NLI have been organized in
which the task was to identify the native language of non-native speakers of
English-based on essays and spoken responses they provided during a
standardized assessment of academic English proficiency. The first shared task
was based on the essays only and was also held with the BEA workshop in 2013.
It was a total success with 29 teams competing, making it one of the largest
shared tasks that year. Three years later, Computational Paralinguistics
Challenge at Interspeech 2016 hosted a sub-challenge on identifying the native
language based solely on the spoken responses.

This year's shared task combines the inputs from the two previous tasks. There
will be three tracks: NLI on the essay only, NLI on the speech response only,
and NLI using both responses from a test taker. We feel this will make for a
more challenging shared task while building on the methods and results from
the previous two shared tasks. The training and development data for the
shared task was just released.

The organizing committee for the shared task is: Aoife Cahill (Educational
Testing Service), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service), Shervin
Malmasi (Harvard Medical School), Joel Tetreault (Grammarly).

To register and participate in the shared task, please visit the NLI website:
https://sites.google.com/site/nlisharedtask/home

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 11 - 23:59 EST 
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, June 30
Camera-ready Papers Due: Friday, July 14
Workshop: September 08

Organizing Committee:

Joel Tetreault, Grammarly (primary contact)
Burstein, Educational Testing Service
Leacock, Consultant
Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge




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