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9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications
ACL BEA9June 26, 2014
Joel TetreaultJill BursteinClaudia Leacock
Welcome!
• Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces
• 9th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008 - 2013]
• Thanks to (a record) 96 reviewers!– Previous total was 73 in 2013
• 50 registrants! • 2nd BEA with sponsors and t-shirts• 1st with invited speaker
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%
2014 35 21 7 14 60%
Other Notes:•2008 and 2009 had one week extensions•2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks
Reviewer HonorsName Affiliation Years
Martin Chodorow City University of New York 9
Derrick Higgins Educational Testing Service 8
Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh 8
Jennifer Foster Dublin City University 7
Michael Gamon Microsoft Research 7
Na-Rae Han University of Pittsburgh 7
Ola Knutsson Stockholm University 7
John Lee City University of Hong Kong 7
Detmar Meurers University of Tübingen 7
Lisa Michaud Merrimack College 7
Sponsors
BEA9 T-Shirts
• Design: Emilie Bennett-Kjenstad & Joya Tetreault
• Great for a night out on the town or for staying in or as formal wear
Poster Session Notes
• 14 BEA papers spread over two poster sessions (includes two demos):– Group A: 2:00 – 2:45– Group B: 2:45 – 3:30
• Presenters: set up at 1:45• BEA9 Website has schedule
– http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/acl-bea9.html
Dinner: 7:00 tonight• Darbar: Cuisine of India
– 1911 Aliceanna Street– http://www.darbarbaltimore.com/
• Group movement:– Meet at first floor lobby– Leave at 6:30 sharp– 15min walk
Dinner Directions
EduNLP Announcements
EduNLP: Previous 2014 Conferences
• NIPS Workshop on Data-Driven Education– Dec 10, 2013 @ Lake Tahoe, USA
• 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations– Apr 27 @ Gothenburg, Sweden
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems– June 05-09 @ Honolulu, USA
• ACL Workshop on Argument Mining– June 26 @ Baltimore, USA
• ACL Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)– June 26 @ Baltimorem USA
EduNLP: Upcoming 2014 Conferences
• EUROCALL 2014– August 20-23 @ Groningen, The Netherlands
• Interspeech Special Session on Tutorial Dialogue and SDS – September 08-14 @ Singapore
• 1st Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-1)– November 30-04 @ Nara, Japan
Other EduNLP Events
• COLING Tutorial on Grammatical Error Correction– August 20 @ Dublin, Ireland
• Summer School on Learner Corpus Research: Corpus Approaches to Phraseology– September 08-12 @ Louvain, Belgium
Let’s Go!
Stupid questions are more than welcome!!!