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!!!