28.5120, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 28.5120, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:20:53
From: Jill Burstein [jburstein at ets.org]
Subject: 13th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Full Title: 13th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 
Short Title: BEA13 

Date: 05-Jun-2018 - 06-Jun-2018
Location: New Orleans, Lousiana, USA 
Contact Person: Jill Burstein
Meeting Email: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea13.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation for educational
applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community.

The13th BEA workshop will have oral presentation sessions and a large poster
session in order to maximize the amount of original work presented. We expect
that the workshop will continue to expose the NLP community to technologies
that identify novel opportunities for the use of NLP in education in English,
and languages other than English. 

Organizing Committee:

- Joel Tetreault, Grammarly (primary contact)
- Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
- Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge
- Claudia Leacock, Grammarly
- Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge

There will be 2 Shared Tasks! More details are available at the BEA13 website
and at the Shared Task websites.

1) Shared Task on Second Language Acquisition Modeling

2) Shared Task on Complex Word Identification

Call for Papers:

The 13th BEA workshop will have oral presentation sessions and a large poster
session in order to maximize the amount of original work presented. We expect
that the workshop will continue to expose the NLP community to technologies
that identify novel opportunities  for the use of NLP in education in English,
and languages other than English. The workshop will solicit both full papers
and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. We will solicit
papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: automated
scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; game-based instruction and
assessment; educational data mining; intelligent tutoring; peer review,
grammatical error detection; learner cognition; spoken dialog; multimodal
applications; tools for teachers and test developers; and use of corpora.
Research that incorporates NLP methods for use with mobile and game-based
platforms will be of special interest. Specific topics include:

- Automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple
genres)
* Content analysis for scoring/assessment
* Detection and correction of grammatical and other types of errors (such as,
spelling and word usage)
* Argumentation, discourse, sentiment, stylistic analysis, & non-literal
language
* Plagiarism detection
* Detection of features related to interest, motivation, and values in writing
tasks

- Intelligent Tutoring (IT), Collaborative Learning Environments
* Educational Data Mining: Collection of user log data from educational
applications
* Game-based learning
* Multimodal communication (including dialog systems) between students and
computers
* Knowledge representation in learning systems
* Concept visualization in learning systems

- 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

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

- Tools and applications 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
* Processing of and access to lecture materials across topics and genres
* Adaptation of instructional text to individual learners’ grade levels
* Tools for text-based curriculum development

Submission Information

We will be using the NAACL submission guidelines and style files for the BEA13
Workshop this year (http://naacl2018.org/call_for_paper.html). Authors are
invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with unlimited
pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content,
including unlimited pages for references. Final camera ready versions of
accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address
reviewer comments.

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) ...''.

We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should
mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the
same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or
discussed it with you.

We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions. The link
will be made live when available. 

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 20 - 23:59 EST (New York City Time) 
Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, April 04
Camera-ready Papers Due: Monday, April 16
Workshop: June 05 or 06

Two Shared Tasks will be hosted at BEA13. For more details
see:https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea13.html.

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