16.286, Calls: Applied Ling/Computational Ling

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Subject: 16.286, Calls: Applied Ling/Computational Ling

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Date: 27-Jan-2005
From: Jill Burstein < jburstein at ets.org >
Subject: Natural Language Engineering

	
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:20:47
From: Jill Burstein < jburstein at ets.org >
Subject: Natural Language Engineering


Full Title: Natural Language Engineering

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-May-2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Natural Language Engineering

SPECIAL ISSUE ON EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS

Guest Editors:

Jill Burstein
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, New Jersey

Claudia Leacock
Pearson Knowledge Technologies
Boulder, Colorado

OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE
Educational applications that make use of natural language processing
methods are deployed for both large-scale assessment and classroom
instruction. These applications include automated scoring of essays and
short-answer responses, and qualitative feedback for essays -- evaluation
of grammar, usage, mechanics, style, and high-level discourse analysis. We
are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to:

- Speech-based tools for educational technology
- Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with regard
to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for
domain-specific responses
- Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as legal
or business writing, or creative aspects of writing
- Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP
methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based
analyses
- Dialogue systems in education
- understanding student input
- generating the tutors' feedback
- evaluation
- Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
- Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building
- Content-based scoring

While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related
issues, we particularly welcome submissions that describe deployed
applications. Further, since most of the deployed work in NLP-based
educational applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any
work of this type that incorporates speech processing and other
input/output modalities.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished
research, addressing issues related to the use of natural language
processing methods for the development of educational technology applications.

Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions,
and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is
LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is
available through anonymous ftp from the following address:
ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/
In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:
texline at cup.cam.ac.uk.

Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous
review, to both: jburstein at ets.org & claudia.leacock at k-a-t.com

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions: May 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2005
Final versions due: November 30, 2005
Journal publication: June 2006

Confirmed Program Committee:

Chris Bowerman, University of Sunderland, UK
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA
Paul Deane, Educational Testing Service, USA
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain
Pamela Jordon, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation, USA
Thomas Landauer, University of Colorado and Knowledge Analysis
Technologies, USA
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern
California, USA
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Morton, Educational Testing Service, USA
Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Donia Scott, University of Brighton, UK
Susanne Wolff, Princeton University, USA





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