10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational

Applications

NAACL BEA10June 04, 2015

Joel TetreaultJill BursteinClaudia Leacock

Welcome!

• Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces

• 10th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008 - 2015]

• Thanks to (a record) 101 reviewers!– Last two years were 96 and 73

• 58+ registrants!– 2nd highest (2013: 63+ but +shared task)

• 3rd BEA with sponsors and t-shirts

10 Years of History

BEA3:Columbus (2008)

BEA4: Boulder

BEA5: Los Angeles

BEA6: Portland

BEA7: Montreal

BEA8: Atlanta

BEA9: Baltimore

BEA10: Denver

BEA1: Edmonton (2003)

BEA2: Ann Arbor (2005)

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%

2015 44 29 10 19 66%

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 10

Derrick Higgins Civis Analytics 9

Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh 8

Jennifer Foster Dublin City University 8

Michael Gamon Microsoft Research 8

Ola Knutsson Stockholm University 8

John Lee City University of Hong Kong 8

Detmar Meurers University of Tübingen 8

Lisa Michaud Merrimack College 8

Sponsors

Newsletter

• This past year have started a quasi-monthly newsletter of EduNLP resources, events, links to papers, job postings, etc.

• Thanks to our brilliant volunteers:– Ekaterina Kochmar – Ildiko Pilan– Sowmya Vajjala – Helen Yannakoudakis

BEA10 T-Shirts

• Design: Joya Tetreault• Great for a night out on

the town or for staying in or as formal wear

Poster Session Notes

• 20 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• Shared Task proposal also presented as poster• BEA10 Website has schedule

– http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/naacl-bea10.html

Dinner: 7:00 tonight• Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

– 1525 Blake Street– https://www.riograndemexican.com/locations/denver/

• Group movement:– Meet at registration desk– Leave at 6:30 sharp– 20min walk

Dinner Directions

EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: Previous 2015 Conferences

• 4th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL)– May 11 @ Vilnius, Lithuania

EduNLP: Upcoming 2015 Conferences

• Workshop on NLP for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015)– June 23 @Rotterdam

• Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP)– Including a Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction– July 30 @ Beijing

• 2nd Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2)– July 31 @ Beijing

• Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED)– July 31 @ Beijing

• SLaTE Workshop on L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology– September 03 @ Leipzig, Germany

EduNLP: Upcoming 2015 Conferences

• Conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL)– August 26-29 @ Padova, Italy

• Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)– September 5-11 @ Hissar, Bulgaria

• 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)– September 11 @ Dresden, Germany

Let’s Go!

Stupid questions are more than welcome!!!