[Corpora-List] ACL 2013 workshop - teaching NLP/CL
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radev at umich.edu
Thu May 9 11:01:15 UTC 2013
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> The fourth Teaching NLP/CL workshop
>
> With a Focus on Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics
>
> http://www.teachingnlp.org
>
> An ACL-2013 Workshop
> Sofia, Bulgaria
>
> Co-chairs:
>
> Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
> Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
>
>
> DATES
>
> papers due May 13, 2013
> acceptance notification May 24, 2013
> camera-ready papers due June 7, 2013
> workshop August 9, 2013
>
>
> INTRODUCTION
>
> This is the fourth installment of the traditional workshop on Teaching
> NLP and CL, held previously at ACL 2002, ACL 2005, and ACL 2008. As
> with the previous instances, the workshop will cover all aspects of
> teaching NLP and CL to high school and college students but this time
> we will include a special focus area on the topic of Olympiads in
> (Computational) Linguistics reflecting the origin of these Olympiads
> in Europe and the growing interest in such educational events in
> recent years.
>
>
> FOCUS: Olympiads in (Computational) Linguistics
>
> Since the mid-1960s, problem-solving competitions in linguistics for
> secondary school students have been taking place at various locations
> around the world. In Russia, the Moscow Linguistics Olympiad and its
> mirror in St. Petersburg are credited with inspiring hundreds of young
> talented scholars to choose linguistics as an academic field and
> profession. The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), an annual
> event launched in 2003 with 33 participants from 6 countries, has grown
> to 131 participants from 26 countries at its tenth instalment in 2012,
> and has provoked the founding of regular regional and national
> linguistic contests in much of the world. In this way linguistic
> olympiads have proven a fruitful field for international cooperation.
>
> The genre of the self-sufficient linguistic problem, intended to guide
> the solver to the independent discovery of unfamiliar linguistic
> phenomena and concepts or research issues of linguistics and adjacent
> theoretical and applied disciplines, has also evolved over the years,
> benefitting from the input of over 200 authors and now of emerging
> national traditions. In particular, although problems on computational
> linguistics (that is, such as illustrate fundamental or current issues
> of natural language processing, rather than languages or linguistic
> theory) have always had a presence at linguistic contests, in the US
> and the other Anglophone countries (ELCLO, the English Language
> Computational Linguistics Olympiad, now includes Canada, Ireland,
> Australia, the USA and the UK), they have become a primary feature. In
> part the revival of interest towards them is a response to the growing
> importance of language technologies in contemporary life.
>
>
> GENERAL AREA PAPER SOLICITATION
>
>
> For the general area, we are looking for long and short papers on
> topics like the following:
>
> * Novel teaching methodologies: e.g., hands-on assignments, shared
> projects, etc.
>
> * Novel assignments: e.g., connection to social media, the humanities,
> finance, or integrative assignments that involve multiple concepts and
> skills.
>
> * Educational tools: resources, especially interactive ones, that
> explain or visualize specific concepts.
>
> * Targeting various student populations: linguists, first-year
> students, mathematics majors,
>
> * Teaching NLP online: massive open online courses, automatic grading,
> resource sharing, legal and logistical issues
>
>
>
>
> FOCUS AREA PAPER SOLICITATION
>
> For the focus area, we are soliciting long and short papers on the
> following and related topics:
>
> * Linguistic problems: history and specific traits of the genre;
> relation to other genres (word puzzles, logic puzzles, recreational
> mathematics, linguistic quizzes, textbook exercises in linguistics,
> olympiad-style problems in mathematics or informatics, etc.).
>
> * Problem creation (general): choosing phenomena, obtaining and
> selecting material, presenting data, designing assignments, evaluating
> difficulty.
>
> * Linguistic problems and: mathematics; poetry; terminological
> systems; language-like non-language systems; etc.
>
> * Computational problems: characteristics of the sub-genre, topics of
> natural language processing that can be or have been illustrated in
> problems, issues of problem composition.
>
> * Problem translation: impact of the working language; reuse of
> problems from foreign sources; IOL and multilinguality.
>
> * Uses of linguistic problems for purposes other than student contests
> (for example, in classroom teaching in secondary school and college
> education, or for the education of the general public about languages
> and linguistics).
>
> * Linguistic olympiads: how to start them, how to run them, how to
> judge them; relation to olympiads in mathematics and the other
> sciences; relation to the school curriculum.
>
> * Other extracurricular activities in (computational) linguistics for
> secondary-school and college students: lectures, mini-courses,
> supervised student research.
>
> In addition to these papers, the organisers will be collecting pointers
> to educational resources on the Web, including sites of regional and
> national contests, collections of problems and lists of linguistic
> literature recommended to secondary school students.
>
>
> SUBMISSION INFORMATION
>
> Papers submitted to the workshop must describe original, unpublished
> work. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Submissions should
> follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and be made through
> ACL's START system.
>
>
>
> SHARED TASK
>
> The participants are encouraged to submit sample NACLO-style
> problems for the contest or other teaching materials. Check the NACLO
> web site for sample problems from the past.
>
>
> PANELS
>
> A panel on linguistic problem creation: how problems are made, how they
> illustrate linguistic phenomena and concepts, how to use them to draw
> attention to obscure points of one's native language,
> multilinguality issues, etc.
>
> A panel on computational problems: how they are made, how they differ
> from the classical kind of linguistic problems, how they illustrate
> actual research problems, how they relate to the solver's native (or
> working) language, how they can be integrated in the syllabus of a
> class, etc.
>
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED/EXPANDED)
>
> Steve Abney
> Hugh Dobbs
> Jason Eisner
> Dominique Estival
> Adam Hesterberg
> Dick Hudson
> Boris Iomdin
> Ben King
> Zornitsa Kozareva
> Lori Levin
> Patrick Littell
> Rada Mihalcea
> Ani Nenkova
> Vincent Ng
> Thomas Payne
> James Pustejovsky
> Harold Somers
>
>
> REFERENCES
>
> http://www.ioling.org
> http://www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu
> http://www.lingling.ru
>
> http://www.facebook.com/Sofia.City.Bulgaria?ref=stream
>
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Dragomir R. Radev Professor SI,CSE,Ling Univ. Michigan
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev radev at umich.edu
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