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9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. ACL BEA9 June 26, 2014. Joel Tetreault Jill Burstein Claudia Leacock. Welcome!. Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 9 th workshop [2003, 2005, 2008 - 2013]

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9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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  1. 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications ACL BEA9 June 26, 2014 Joel Tetreault Jill Burstein Claudia Leacock

  2. 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

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

  4. Reviewer Honors

  5. Sponsors

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Dinner Directions

  10. EduNLP Announcements

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Let’s Go! Stupid questions are more than welcome!!!

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