31.3655, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3655. Mon Nov 30 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3655, Calls: Comp Ling/Online

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:03:50
From: Ildiko Pilan [pilan at nr.no]
Subject: 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

 
Full Title: 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 
Short Title: BEA2021 

Date: 19-Apr-2021 - 20-Apr-2021
Location: Kyiv (Online), Ukraine 
Contact Person: Ildiko Pilan
Meeting Email: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA2021) 

Online event on Monday, April 19, 2021 or Tuesday, April 20, 2021 (TBD)
(co-located with EACL 2021)

In its 16th year, the BEA Workshop continues to be a leading venue for NLP
innovation for educational applications, and one of the largest one-day
workshops in the ACL community. The workshop’s continuous growth illustrates
an alignment between societal need and technological advances. The COVID-19
pandemic brings a necessary expansion for remote learning across the
educational space from early primary education through secondary, adult
education, and for workforce learning. BEA2021 will have a sub-theme and will
welcome research that can support remote and hybrid learning contexts.

The 16th BEA workshop will have oral presentation sessions and a large poster
session to maximize the amount of original work presented. The workshop will
solicit both full and short 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 & test
developers; and use of corpora. Research that incorporates NLP methods for use
with mobile and game-based platforms will be of special interest.  

PANEL: 
We will be hosting a virtual 1-hour panel on “New Challenges for Educational
Technology in the Time of the Pandemic” that will cover such questions as (1)
What areas / subjects / aspects of education will be most affected by the
pandemic? (2) How can AI / educational technology help tackle these issues?
(3) What long-term consequences will the current situation have on education?
We have 2 confirmed panelists so far: Prof. Dr Gaëlle Molinari (Faculty of
Psychology, Swiss Distance University Institute) and Prof Carolyn Rosé
(Language Technologies Institute and HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University).


Call for Papers: 

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Note: these dates are still preliminary and may change. All deadlines are
11.59 pm UTC-12.
 - Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, January 18, 2021
 - Notification of Acceptance: Thursday, February 18, 2021 
 - Camera-ready Papers Due: Monday, March 1, 2021 
 - Workshop: Monday, April 19, 2021 or Tuesday, April 20, 2021 (TBD)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION: 
We will be using the EACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this
year. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to eight (8) pages of
content or short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of
content for addressing reviewers’ comments. 
Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system.
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. 
We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. 
We will be using the START system for submissions:
https://www.softconf.com/eacl2021/bea2021/

DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY: 
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:  
 - Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
 - Andrea Horbach, University of Duisburg-Essen
 - Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge
 - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, University of Duisburg-Essen
 - Claudia Leacock, Grammarly 
 - Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service 
 - Ildikó Pilán, Norwegian Computing Center
 - Helen Yannakoudakis, King’s College London, University of Cambridge
 - Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen 

Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com 

For further information, please visit: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current




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