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| | Acronym = BEA 2008
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| | Title = ACL 2008 Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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| | Type = Workshop
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| | Field = Natural language processing
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| | Homepage = www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/acl-bea.html
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| | Start date = Jun 19, 2008
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| | End date = Jun 20, 2008
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| | City= Columbus
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| | State = OH
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| | Country = USA
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| | Abstract deadline =
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| | Submission deadline = Mar 14, 2008
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| | Notification = Apr 7, 2008
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| FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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| ACL 2008 Workshop on
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| Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
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| Columbus, Ohio; June 19/20, 2008
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| http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/acl-bea.html
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| Submission Deadline: March 14, 2008
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| WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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| NLP-based applications have had a profound effect on education in the areas of
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| assessment and instruction. Early applications focused on writing for automated
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| essay scoring, short-answer response scoring in assessment and intelligent
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| tutoring, and grammatical error detection for proofreading. More recently, NLP
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| has been introduced into additional educational contexts, including automated
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| scoring of speech and text-based curriculum development for reading support. In
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| addition, the earlier applications for grammatical error detection have
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| greatly improved. Not only has the field improved existing capabilities, but as
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| a community we are generating innovative and creative ways to use NLP in
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| applications for multiple skill sets, including writing, reading, and speaking.
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| The need for, and the rapid development of, language-based capability
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| development in the United States and other Anglophone countries are driven by
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| increased requirements for state/national assessments and a growing population
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| of English language learners. In the past five years, steady growth in the area
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| of NLP-based applications for education has prompted an increased number of
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| workshops which typically focus on one specific aspect of NLP-based educational
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| applications. In this workshop, we solicit papers from all subfields.
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| We intend to bring all subfields together to foster continued interaction and
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| collaboration among researchers in both academic institutions and industry.
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| This workshop (consistent with previous workshops at ACL 1997, NAACL/HLT 2003,
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| and ACL 2005) will continue to expose the NLP research community to these
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| technologies with the hope that they continue to identify novel opportunities
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| for the use of NLP tools in educational applications.
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| TOPICS OF INTEREST
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| For this workshop, we invite submissions including, but not limited to:
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| 1) Automated Scoring/Evaluation for Text and Speech
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| * Automated processing of spoken and written lecture materials across
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| genres, e.g., - Content-based analysis - Grammatical error detection -
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| Response-based discourse analysis - Stylistic analysis
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| * Knowledge representation in learning systems
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| * Machine translation for assessment, instruction, and curriculum development
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| * Plagiarism detection tools
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| 2) Intelligent Tutoring
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| * Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods
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| to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based analyses
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| * Dialogue systems in education
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| * Hypothesis formation and testing in automated tutoring systems
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| * Multi-modal communication between human learners and machines
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| * Automatically generating tutorial responses
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| 3) Learner Cognition
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| * Automated assessment of students' language and cognitive skill levels
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| * Automated systems that detect and adapt to learners' cognitive or
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| emotional states
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| * Automatic generation of test questions
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| * Tools for learners with special needs
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| 4) Corpora and annotation standards for building NLP educational tools
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| 5) Use of Response Databases
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| * Data mining of student corpora for tool building
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| * Visualization of concepts in learning systems
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| 6) Classroom Tools
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| * NLP tools for second language learners
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| * Semantic-based access to instructional materials
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| * Tools for teachers and test developers (such as tools that automatically
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| identify text on a given topic, or adapt a text to the grade level of the
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| student, or assist in text-based curriculum development)
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| * E-learning tools for personalized course content
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| 7) Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
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| 8) Descriptions of Working Systems
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| SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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| Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF
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| format (with up to 1 additional page for references). Previously published
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| papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program
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| committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are
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| anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity,
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| e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, | |
| use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
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| Please use the ACL style sheet for composing your paper:
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| http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html
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| And the following submission page handled by the START conference
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| system:
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| https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS10/
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| IMPORTANT DATES
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| Submission deadline: March 14, 2008
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| Notification of acceptance: April 07, 2008
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| Final papers due: April 21, 2008
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| Workshop: either June 19 or 20, 2008
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| WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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| Joel Tetreault, ETS, USA (principal contact: JTetreault@ets.org)
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| Jill Burstein, ETS, USA
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| Rachele De Felice, Oxford University, UK
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| PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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| Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
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| Mark Core, ICT/USC, USA
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| Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA
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| Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland
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| Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA
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| Na-Rae Han, Korea University, Korea
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| Derrick Higgins, ETS, USA
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| Emi Izumi, NICT, Japan
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| Ola Knutsson, KTH Nada, Sweden
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| Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group, USA
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| John Lee, MIT, USA
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| Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware, USA
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| Detmar Meurers, OSU, USA
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| Lisa Michaud, Wheaton College, USA
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| Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington, USA
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| Stephen Pulman, Oxford, UK
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| Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo, Canada
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| Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA
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| Richard Sproat, UIUC, USA
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| Jana Sukkarieh, ETS, USA
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| </pre>This CfP was obtained from [http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=2710&copyownerid=320 WikiCFP]
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