[Corpora-List] CFP: The 5th International Workshop on Question Generation: "Why Ask? Question Purposes"

Thu Mar 8 20:16:26 UTC 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth International Workshop on Question Generation: "Why Ask? Question Purposes"
(http:/www.questiongeneration.org/QG2012)

To be held at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2012),
Chania, Crete, Greece, June 14-18, 2012.

Duration:  half day (possibly extended to full day if merited by submission quantity and quality)

Submission deadline: March 30, 2012

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OVERVIEW

As the Question Generation homepage (www.questiongeneration.org) documents, question generation
is emerging as an active area of research, as demonstrated by the series of international workshops
on this topic held at NSF in 2008, at AIED in 2009, at ITS in 2010, and at the AAAI Fall Symposia
in 2011; by the Shared Task Evaluation Challenge held in 2010 (corpus available via CODA project
page); and by the special issue of Dialogue & Discourse on Question Generation.  However, work in
this area has largely focused more on how to generate good questions than on why.

Intelligent tutoring systems can use questions to engage students, focus their attention, assess
their knowledge, and teach self-questioning, to list just a few examples. Automated or machine-aided
generation, evaluation, or selection of questions for a given purpose would therefore be of great
value to intelligent tutoring systems.  Both existing and new technology and resources for natural
language processing provide opportunities to address these challenges.

QG 2012 will explore the diverse purposes that questions can serve, and their implications for
purpose-sensitive question generation, evaluation, and selection. In addressing how to generate,
evaluate, and/or select questions, submissions should therefore specify:

1. Target:  What does it take to answer the questions?
2. Purpose:  Why ask the questions?
3. Question type:  In what form are questions output:  cloze?  wh-/how/so/...?  find/compare/...?
4. Answer type:  In what form are responses input:  multiple choice? fill-in? open-ended? ...
5. Generation:  How are questions, answers, and distracters constructed?
6. Modality:  What channels convey questions and answers:  menu/click/type/speech/graphics/...?
7. Assessment:  How are responses scored? What feedback is generated, and how?
8. Evaluation:  How well do questions serve their purpose?  How to tell?

SUBMISSIONS

The workshop will be open to all ITS2012 attendees, but presentation will require paper submission
or organizer invitation.  We invite submissions of short papers (up to 4 pages including references)
and long papers (up to 8 pages including references).  All submissions must:
- Include an abstract
- Be in .pdf format
- Follow the formatting guidelines for Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Be submitted via EasyChair
 - Be submitted by March 30, 2012 at 11:59pm Hawaii time.

Here's how:

1. Download the LNCS template and formatting instructions from the Springer website:  Go to
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and download the LNCS template for the
word processing software you would like to use. E.g., for Word 2007, download LNCS-Office2007.zip;
for Word 97-2003, download word.zip; for LaTex, download lncs.zip; and so forth. Note that most but
not all of these downloads are listed at the top right (notable exception: LNCS-Office2007.zip is
listed further down). You may ascertain which file to download for use with your preferred word
processor by clicking on the relevant "Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes ..... " link. For
Word 2007 this actually link gets you to the download link. Unzip the file and study the instructions.

2. Prepare your paper with title, author information, abstract, and keywords, following the instructions
in the typeinst file that you downloaded.  All submissions must be in .pdf format.

3. Submit your paper at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=QG2012 as follows.  First, login using your
existing EasyChair account, or create a new account following the instructions on the site. (If you are
not logged in as author, you may need to change your role to author. You may do so by selecting the menu
item: QG2012 ' Change Role. Your current role is always shown at the top of the EasyChair screen.)  Once
logged in, select New Submission to start a submission, and follow the instructions on the submission
screen.  The abstract and keywords should help in assigning appropriate reviewers.  To revise an existing
submission, use Update information, Update authors, or Submit a new version, whichever applies.

CO-CHAIRS
Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Itziar Aldabe, University of the Basque Country Spain
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA
Tiffany Barnes, UNC Charlotte, USA
Lee Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA
Aiofe Cahill, Educational Testing Service, USA
Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Clark, Vulcan Inc., USA
Joseph Grafsgaard, North Carolina State University, USA
Michael Heilman, Educational Testing Service, USA
Pascal Kuyten, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ming Liu, University of Sydney, Australia
Sarah Luger, University of Edinburgh, UK
David McDonald, Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA
Chris Mitchell, North Carolina State University, USA
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Rodney Nielsen, Boulder Language Technologies, USA
Paul Piwek, Open University, UK
Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA
Svetlana Stoyanchev, The Open University, UK
Sandra Williams, Open University, UK
Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Xuchen Yao, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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