33.578, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA
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Subject: 33.578, Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 02:00:43
From: Victoria Yaneva [vyaneva at nbme.org]
Subject: 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Full Title: 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Short Title: BEA
Date: 14-Jul-2022 - 15-Jul-2022
Location: Seattle/Hybrid, USA
Contact Person: Ekaterina Kochmar
Meeting Email: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2022
Meeting Description:
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the
ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years.
The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of
researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in
Educational Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has 240 members.
The workshop's continuing growth highlights the alignment between societal
needs and technological advances: for instance, BEA16 in 2021 hosted a panel
discussion on New Challenges for Educational Technology in the Time of the
Pandemic addressing the pressing issues around COVID19. NLP capabilities can
now support an array of learning domains, including writing, speaking,
reading, science, and mathematics, as well as the related intra-personal
(e.g., self-confidence) and inter-personal (e.g., peer collaboration) skills.
Within these areas, the community continues to develop and deploy innovative
NLP approaches for use in educational settings. Another breakthrough for
educational applications within the CL community is the presence of a number
of shared-task competitions organized by the BEA workshop over the past
several years, including four shared tasks on grammatical error detection and
correction alone. NLP/Education shared tasks have also seen new areas of
research, such as the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing at BEA11,
Native Language Identification at BEA12, Second Language Acquisition Modelling
at BEA13, and Complex Word Identification at BEA13. These competitions
increased the visibility of, and interest in, our field.
The 17th BEA workshop will have keynotes by Burr Settles (Duolingo) and
Alexandra Cristea (University of Durham), an invited paper presentation by a
member of one of the educational societies from the International Alliance to
Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE), oral presentation sessions, a
large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented, and a
panel discussion to encourage interaction between workshop participants. We
expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and
opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. 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;
- automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple
genres);
- game-based instruction and assessment;
- educational data mining;
- intelligent tutoring;
- collaborative learning environments;
- peer review;
- grammatical error detection and correction;
- learner cognition;
- spoken dialog;
- multimodal applications;
- annotation standards and schemas;
- tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
developers; and
- use of corpora in educational tools.
Contact: bea.nlp.workshop at gmail.com
Call for Papers:
The 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA17)
Seattle/Hybrid
Thursday, July 14 OR Friday, July 15, 2022 (TBD)
(co-located with NAACL 2022)
https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
* Submission Deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022, 11:59pm UTC-12 *
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the
ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years.
The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of
researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in
Educational Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has 240 members.
The workshop's continuing growth highlights the alignment between societal
needs and technological advances: for instance, BEA16 in 2021 hosted a panel
discussion on New Challenges for Educational Technology in the Time of the
Pandemic addressing the pressing issues around COVID19. NLP capabilities can
now support an array of learning domains, including writing, speaking,
reading, science, and mathematics, as well as the related intra-personal
(e.g., self-confidence) and inter-personal (e.g., peer collaboration) skills.
Within these areas, the community continues to develop and deploy innovative
NLP approaches for use in educational settings. Another breakthrough for
educational applications within the CL community is the presence of a number
of shared-task competitions organized by the BEA workshop over the past
several years, including four shared tasks on grammatical error detection and
correction alone. NLP/Education shared tasks have also seen new areas of
research, such as the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing at BEA11,
Native Language Identification at BEA12, Second Language Acquisition Modelling
at BEA13, and Complex Word Identification at BEA13. These competitions
increased the visibility of, and interest in, our field.
The 17th BEA workshop will have keynotes by Burr Settles (Duolingo) and
Alexandra Cristea (University of Durham), an invited paper presentation by a
member of one of the educational societies from the International Alliance to
Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE), oral presentation sessions, a
large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented, and a
panel discussion to encourage interaction between workshop participants. 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;
- automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple
genres);
- game-based instruction and assessment;
- educational data mining;
- intelligent tutoring;
- collaborative learning environments;
- peer review;
- grammatical error detection and correction;
- learner cognition;
- spoken dialog;
- multimodal applications;
- annotation standards and schemas;
- tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
developers; and
- use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Burr Settles, Duolingo
- Alexandra Cristea, University of Durham
- Ambassador paper: James Fiacco, Carnegie Mellon University (ISLS 2021)
IMPORTANT DATES
Note: these dates are still preliminary and may change. All deadlines are
11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
- Submission Deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022
- Notification of Acceptance: Friday, May 6, 2022
- Camera-ready Papers Due: Friday, May 20, 2022
- Workshop: Thursday, July 14 or Friday, July 15, 2022 (TBD)
The workshop will be held as a one-day event either on July 14 or July 15
(exact date TBD).
Find out more at https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
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