8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational

Applications

NAACL BEA8June 13, 2013NLI

2013

Welcome!

• Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces

• 8th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012]

• Thanks to (a record) 73 reviewers!• Most registrations ever (63+)• First BEA with sponsors and t-shirts• There are no stupid questions!• Restaurant Tonight (7:00)

Reviewer HonorsName Affiliation Years

Martin Chodorow City University of New York 8

Derrick Higgins Educational Testing Service 7

Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh 7

Jennifer Foster Dublin City University 6

Michael Gamon Microsoft Research 6

Na-Rae Han University of Pittsburgh 6

Ola Knutsson Stockholm University 6

John Lee City University of Hong Kong 6

Detmar Meurers University of Tübingen 6

Lisa Michaud Merrimack College 6

Numbers

Total Submissions

TotalAccepted

Oral Poster Acceptance Rate

2008 18 13 13 - 72%

2009 24 12 12 - 50%

2010 28 13 13 - 46%

2011 36 22 8 14 61%

2012 42 24 8 16 57%

2013 25 15 9 6 60%

Other Notes:•2008 and 2009 had one week extensions•2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks

Sponsors

BEA8 T-Shirts

• Design: Joya Tetreault• Great for a night out on

the town or for staying in• Might order more?

NLI 2013 Shared Task

• Shared task on Native Language Identification• Organized by Tetreault, Blanchard and Cahill• 24 system description posters and 1 overview

oral presentation • http://www.nlisharedtask2013.org/

Poster Session Notes

• 6 BEA and 24 NLI papers spread over two poster sessions:– Session A: 1:50 – 2:40– Session B: 2:40 – 3:30

• Presenters: set up at 1:40• BEA8 Website has most up-to-date schedule

– http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/naacl-bea8.html

Dinner: 7:00 tonight• Haveli Indian Cuisine– 225 Spring Street– http://www.haveli.moonfruit.com/

• Group movement:– Meet on 5th floor Starbucks– Leave at 6:50– 5min walk

Dinner Directions

EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: 2013 Conferences

• 2nd Workshop on NLP for CALL

– May 22 @ Oslo, Norway

• ICALL in the Digital Age– May 22 @ Honolulu, USA

• 1st Shared Task on Native Language Identification

– June 13 @ Atlanta, USA

• Workshop on NLP for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA)– June 14 @ Atlanta, USA

• SEMEVAL Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge– June 14 @ Atlanta, USA

EduNLP: 2013 Conferences

• AI in Education (AIED)– July 09-13 @ Memphis, USA

• CoNLL Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction– August 08-09 @ Sofia, Bulgaria

• Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)– August 30-01 @ Grenoble, France

• HLT for Language Learning (HLT4LL)– December 11 @ Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Let’s Go!