28.2045, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/Denmark

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Subject: 28.2045, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/Denmark

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Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 15:34:11
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: BEA12 

Date: 08-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.


Final Call for Papers:

The 12th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA12)
Copenhagen, Denmark; September 08, 2017
(co-located with EMNLP) 
https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/emnlp-bea12.html
Submission Deadline: June 11, 2017

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. We invite both full
papers and short papers on topics including: automated scoring of textual and
spoken responses, intelligent tutoring, peer review, grammatical error
detection/correction, learner cognition, spoken dialogue, multimodal
applications, tools for teachers and test developers, and use of corpora.
Research that incorporates NLP for use with mobile and game-based platforms
will be of special interest. Specific topics include:

- Automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses
- Intelligent Tutoring (IT) and Game-based assessment that incorporates NLP
- Learner cognition
- Use of corpora in educational tools
- Tools and applications for classroom teachers and/or test developers
- NLP tools for second and foreign language learners
- Descriptions and proposals for shared tasks
- Retrospective or survey papers on a particular NLP/Edu topic or field
- Vision papers about ideas discussing how the field should develop

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)
- Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
- Claudia Leacock, Consultant
- Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge




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