Appel: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing

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Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing
                            HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop
                                May 31, 2003
                             Edmonton, Canada

                        http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL

Overview

There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for
both large-scale assessment and classroom instruction.  This has
occurred for two primary reasons.  First, there has been a significant
increase in the availability of computers in schools, from elementary
school to the university. Second, there has been notable development
in computer-based educational applications that incorporate advanced
methods in NLP that can be used to evaluate students' work.
Educational applications have been developed across a variety of
subject domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and
intelligent tutoring.  To date, these two research areas have remained
autonomous. We hope that this workshop will facilitate communication
between researchers who work on all types of instructional
applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Since most
of this 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.  We wish to
expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope
that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an
educational application.


Invited Speaker: Thomas Landauer, University of Colorado, Boulder, and
Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT)


Call for Papers

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

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline:
Mar 17
Notification of acceptance for papers:
Mar 31
Camera ready papers due:
Apr 8
Workshop date:
May 31


Organizers

Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service (jburstein at ets.org)
Claudia Leacock, Educational Testing Service (cleacock at ets.org)

Program Committee:

Gregory Aist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS),
NASA
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York
Ron Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
John Dowding, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS),
NASA
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University
Art Graesser, University of Memphis
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern
California
Thomas Morton, University of Pennsylvania
Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh
Susanne Wolff, Princeton University
Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service

Format for Submission

Information about submissions can be found at the URL below.  Please
follow
the instructions for full papers and use only Adobe's Portable Document
Format (PDF) or MS-Word documents.

Since the review process will be blind, please do not include any author
information on the actual paper. Please include an additional title page
with the following information: Paper title, names and contact
information
for all authors, and the paper's abstract.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html

Please e-mail your final .pdf or MS-Word submission to jburstein at ets.org
or
cleacock at ets.org no later than March 17, 2003.  Please feel free to
contact
the organizers with any questions regarding the workshop.






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