29.5088, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 29.5088, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:52:18
From: Ildiko Pilan [ildiko.pilan at gmail.com]
Subject: 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

 
Full Title: 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 
Short Title: BEA14 

Date: 01-Aug-2019 - 02-Aug-2019
Location: Florence, Italy 
Contact Person: Helen Yannakoudakis
Meeting Email: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 26-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

The 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA14)
Florence, Italy; August 01 or 02, 2019 
(co-located with ACL)

The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the
ACL community with over 80 attendees in the past several years. The growing
interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers
involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational
Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has 144 members. The workshop’s
continuing growth highlights the alignment between societal needs and
technological advances.

The 14th BEA workshop will have oral presentation sessions and a large poster
session in order to maximize the amount of original work presented. We expect
that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and
opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. We
will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited
to: automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; game-based
instruction and assessment; educational data mining; intelligent tutoring;
peer review; grammatical error detection and correction; learner cognition;
spoken dialog; multimodal applications; tools for teachers and test
developers; and use of corpora. 

Shared Task: Grammatical Error Correction

The BEA14 workshop will also host a shared task on Grammatical Error
Correction.
Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of automatically correcting
grammatical errors in text; e.g. [I follows his advices → I followed his
advice]. It can be used to not only help language learners improve their
writing skills, but also alert native speakers to accidental mistakes or
typos.

The organizing committee for the shared task consists of: Christopher Bryant
(University of Cambridge), Mariano Felice (University of Cambridge) and Ted
Briscoe (University of Cambridge). You can find additional information about
the shared task on our website.


Call for Papers:

Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:59pm  EST

Submission Information:

We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA14 Workshop this
year. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus
unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be
taken into account. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of
content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be
given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use
this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions.

Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure
that papers are anonymous. 

We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions.

https://sig-edu.org/bea/current

Important Dates:
 
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:59pm  EST 
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, May 24, 2019
Camera-ready Papers Due: Monday, June 3, 2019
Workshop: Thursday or Friday, August 1 or 2, 2019 (TBD)

Organizing Committee:

Helen Yannakoudakis University of Cambridge (primary contact)
Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge
Claudia Leacock, Grammarly 
Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Ildikó Pilán, Develop Diverse 
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen

Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com

For further information, please visit our website:
https://sig-edu.org/bea/current




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