8th workshop on innovative use of nlp for building educational applications naacl bea8 june 13, 2013...
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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
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
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