[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: NAACL-HLT Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

[Joel Tetreault]

 		  	    CALL FOR PAPERS

 			    NAACL-HLT 2009

      The 4th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building
 		       Educational Applications

 		Boulder, Colorado; June 04 or 05, 2009

 	http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea4.html

 		 Submission Deadline: March 06, 2009




WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The Innovative Use of NLP in Educational Applications workshops have 
fostered interaction and collaboration among researchers in intelligent 
tutoring systems (ITS) using text and speech, scoring of free-response 
assessments and proofreading tools. This workshop will continue to explore 
NLP technologies with the goal of identifying novel use of NLP techniques 
and tools for the development of educational applications.

We are increasing the scope of the workshop to (1) include a demo and 
poster session and (2) begin to plan for the first shared task of the 
workshop: grammatical error detection and correction of articles and 
prepositions (for 2010 workshop).

Full paper, demo and poster submission topics will include, but will not 
be limited to the following:

1) Automated scoring/evaluation for oral and written student responses
       * Content analysis for scoring/assessment
       * Grammatical error detection and correction
       * Discourse and stylistic analysis
       * Plagiarism detection
       * Machine translation for assessment, instruction and curriculum
         development


2) Intelligent Tutoring (IT) that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods
       * Dialogue systems in education
       * Hypothesis formation and testing
       * Multi-modal communication between students and computers
       * Generation of tutorial responses
       * Knowledge representation in learning systems
       * Concept visualization in learning systems

3) Learner cognition
       * Assessment of learners' language and cognitive skill levels
       * Systems that detect and adapt to learners' cognitive or emotional
 	states
       * Tools for learners with special needs

4) Use of corpora in educational tools
       * Data mining of learner and other corpora for tool building
       * Annotation standards and schemas / annotator agreement

5) Tools for classroom teachers and/or test developers
       * NLP tools for second and foreign language learners
       * Semantic-based access to instructional materials to identify
         appropriate texts
       * Tools that automatically generate test questions - such as
 	multiple choice or short answer
       * Processing of and access to lecture materials across topics and
 	genres
       * Adaptation of instructional text to individual learners' grade
 	levels
       * assist in text-based curriculum development
       * E-learning tools for personalized course content
       * Language-based educational games

6) Issues involving the shared tasks for the 2010 Workshop: Grammatical 
error detection and correction


7) Issues concerning the evaluation of NLP-based educational tools


8) Descriptions of implemented systems


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic,
PDF format (with up to 1 additional page for references). 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) 
...".  Style files will be available soon.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 06, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2009
Camera-ready papers due: April 12, 2009
Workshop: June 04 or 05, 2009



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Joel Tetreault, ETS, USA (principal contact: JTetreault at ets.org)
Jill Burstein, ETS, USA
Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group, USA



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA
Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland
Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Na-Rae Han, Korea University, Korea
Trude Heift, Simon Frasier University, Canada
Derrick Higgins, ETS, USA
Emi Izumi, NICT, Japan
Ola Knutsson, KTH Nada, Sweden
John Lee, MIT, USA
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Detmar Meurers, University of Tubingen, Germany
Lisa Michaud, Saint Anselm College, USA
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo, Canada
Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA
Richard Sproat, UIUC, USA
Jana Sukkarieh, ETS, USA
David Wible, Tamkang University, Taiwan

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