34.561, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Canada
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Subject: 34.561, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Canada
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:52:30
From: Victoria Yaneva [vyaneva at nbme.org]
Subject: 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
Full Title: 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
Short Title: BEA
Date: 13-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Toronto, Canada
Contact Person: Victoria Yaneva
Meeting Email: vyaneva at nbme.org
Web Site: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2023#shared-task
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 24-Apr-2023
Meeting Description:
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 100 registered 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 over 300
members.
The workshop’s continuing growth highlights the alignment between societal
needs and technological advances: for instance, BEA16 in 2021 hosted a panel
discussion on New Challenges for Educational Technology in the Time of the
Pandemic addressing the pressing issues around COVID19. NLP capabilities can
now support an array of learning domains, including writing, speaking,
reading, science, and mathematics, as well as the related intra-personal
(e.g., self-confidence) and inter-personal (e.g., peer collaboration) skills.
Within these areas, the community continues to develop and deploy innovative
NLP approaches for use in educational settings. Another breakthrough for
educational applications within the CL community is the presence of a number
of shared-task competitions organized by the BEA workshop over the past
several years, including four shared tasks on grammatical error detection and
correction alone. NLP/Education shared tasks have also seen new areas of
research, such as the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing at BEA11,
Native Language Identification at BEA12, Second Language Acquisition Modelling
at BEA13, and Complex Word Identification at BEA13. These competitions
increased the visibility of, and interest in, our field.
The 18th BEA workshop will follow the format of BEA in 2022 and will be
hybrid. We will have three invited talks, a shared task on generation of
teacher responses in educational dialogues, oral presentation sessions, and a
large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. We
expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and
opportunities, including the use of state-of-the-art large language models in
educational applications, and challenges around responsible AI for educational
NLP, in English as well as other languages. The workshop will solicit both
full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. 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.
Call for Papers:
First Call for Papers
The 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA 2023)
Toronto
Thursday, July 13 or Friday, July 14, 2023 (TBD)
(co-located with ACL 2023)
https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
Submission Deadline: Monday, April 24, 2023, 11:59pm UTC-12
The workshop solicits papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not
limited to:
- automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
- automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple
genres);
- game-based instruction and assessment;
- educational data mining;
- intelligent tutoring;
- collaborative learning environments;
- peer review;
- grammatical error detection and correction;
- learner cognition;
- spoken dialog;
- multimodal applications;
- annotation standards and schemas;
- tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
developers; and
- use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED TALKS
The workshop will feature invited talks from Susan Lottridge (Cambium
Assessment) and Jordana Heller (Textio), as well as a speaker from one of the
IAALDE societies.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
- Anonymity Period Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Submission Deadline: Monday, April 24, 2023
- Notification of Acceptance: Monday, May 22, 2023
- Camera-ready Papers Due: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
- Workshop: Thursday, July 13 or Friday, July 14, 2023 (TBD)
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year.
Authors are invited to submit a long paper 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. We also invite short papers 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. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo
of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting
the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short
paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page.
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. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity,
e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”.
We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should
mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the
same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or
discussed it with you.
We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/bea2023/
DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically:
Papers submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must:
* Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are
being submitted.
* State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at
BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other
venues.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI
- Jill Burstein, Duolingo
- Andrea Horbach, FernUniversität in Hagen
- Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum
- Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
- Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven
- Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners
- Zheng Yuan, King’s College London
- Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen
Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
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