[Corpora-List] CFP: NLP-TEA Workshop & Shared Task on Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis

[Lung-Hao Lee]

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Call for Papers and Participation

ICCE 2014 Workshop on Natural Language Processing
Techniques for Educational Applications (*NLP-TEA*)
with Shared Task on Grammatical Error Diagnosis for
Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (*CFL*)

ICCE 2014: http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/
Workshop website:  http://ir.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/icce2014/nlptea/index.html
Shared task webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea1/shared-task

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*Workshop Description *

For the past decade, research and development in the NLP (Natural Language
Processing) community has advanced NLP techniques for educational
applications. For example, the NLP community in north America organizes a
series of workshops on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA) to improve existing capabilities and to generate
creative ways to use NLP in educational applications for writing, reading,
assessment, and so on. The previous BEA workshops were in conjunction with
promotive conferences in NLP area (either ACL or NAACL HLT).

In addition to research papers in the above workshops, several shared tasks
were also organized, e.g. “Helping Our Own” (HOO) English grammatical error
detection/correction competitions in 2011 and 2012, and Native Language
Identification (NLI) competitions in 2013. Independent of the series of BEA
workshops, the CoNLL-2013 shared task is on grammatical error correction
for learners' English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In addition, there is a
SemEval shared task on student’s response analysis. All of these
competitions will increase the visibility of educational application
research in the NLP community.

The ICCE 2014 in Japan will provide an ideal opportunity to bring together
again influential as well as aspiring researchers in computer education
area, to deliberate and interact on a range of research issues. The purpose
of this workshop is to identify challenging problems facing the development
of computer-assisted techniques for Asian language learning, and to shape
future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied
and theoretical research findings. To better meet this end, we also hold a
competitive shared task on Grammatical Error Diagnosis, this year, for
Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL).

*Shared Task*

China’s growing global influence has prompted a surge of interest in
learning Mandarin *Chinese as a foreign language (CFL)*, and this trend is
expected to continue. However, whereas many computer-assisted learning
tools have been developed for learning English, support for CFL learners is
relatively sparse, especially in terms of tools designed to automatically
evaluate learners’ responses. The goal of this shared task is developing
the computer-assisted tools to detect several kinds of grammatical errors,
i.e., *redundant word, missing word, word disorder, and word selection*.
The input sentence contains one of defined error types. The developed tool
should indicate which kind of error type is embedded in the given sentence.
If the input contains no grammatical errors, the tool should return: *sid,
correct*. The output format should be *sid, error_type* if the input
contains a grammatical error. Examples are shown as follows:
*Example 1**: *
    Input: (sid=B2-1447-6)    希望沒有人再被食物中毒
    output:  B2-1447-6    Redundant
*Example 2*:
    Input: (sid=C1-1876-2)    對社會國家(有)不同的影響
    output:  C1-1876-2    Missing
*Example 3*:
    Input: (sid=A2-0775-2)    我起床很早
    output:  A2-0775-2    Disorder
*Example 4*:
    Input: (sid=B1-0110-2)    我會穿著一個黃色的襯衫
    output:  B1-0110-2    Selection


*Important Dates*

The workshop

   - Paper submission deadline for the workshop: August 18, 2014
   - Acceptance notification: September 2, 2014
   - Final camera-ready: September 10, 2014

The Shared Task

   - Registration open for the shared task: May 5, 2014
   - Release of tagged learners' corpus: June 12, 2014
   - Registration close for the shared task: July 15, 2014
   - Release of dry run data for participants to familiarize themselves
   with the testing process: July 21, 2014
   - Release of test data for formal evaluation: August 4, 2014
   - Return of the output for the test data for evaluation: August 6, 2014
   - Announcement of the evaluation results for all participants: August 8,
   2014
   - Report of the developed techniques and their results from the
participants: August
   18, 2014
   - Feedback to the report from the organizers: September 2, 2014
   - Final camera-ready report: September 10, 2014


*Organization*

Workshop Co-organizers

   - Yuen-Hsien Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University)
   - Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)
   - Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Shared Task Co-organizers

   - Liang-Chih Yu (Yuen-Ze University)
   - Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan University)
   - Li-Ping Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)
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