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7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. NAACL BEA7 June 07, 2012. HOO 2012. Welcome!. 7 th workshop [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] Largest ever (9 oral, 30 poster) Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces
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7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA7 June 07, 2012 HOO 2012
Welcome! • 7th workshop • [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] • Largest ever (9 oral, 30 poster) • Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces • Thanks to (a record) 69 reviewers! • There are no stupid questions! • Restaurant Tonight (7:00)
Educational Problem Spaces • Development of Curriculum Materials and Assessments • Delivery of Curriculum Materials and Assessments • Reporting of Scores and Outcomes
Numbers *2008 and 2009 had one week extensions + 2011: 8 oral, 14 poster ++ 2012: 8 oral, 16 poster
HOO-2012 Shared Task • Shared task on grammatical error detection • Organized by Robert Dale et al. • 14 system description posters and 1 overview oral presentation • http://clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/hoo2012/
Dinner: 7:00 tonight • Kashmir Restaurant • 138, Rue Saint-Paul Est, Montreal • http://www.restaurantkashmir.com/main.php • Group movement: • Meet in 1st Floor lobby at 6:10 • Leave at 6:15 • 30min walk
EduNLP: Conferences • IS ADEPT [June 06-08, 2012 @ Stockholm] • Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training • http://www.speech.kth.se/isadept/ • ITS [June 14-18, 2012 @ Chania, Greece] • Intelligent Tutoring Systems • http://its2012.teicrete.gr/ • EDM [June 19-21, 2012 @ Chania, Greece] • Educational Data Mining • http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2012/
EduNLP: Journals • ATALA Journal • “Managing Noise in the Signal: Error handling in NLP” • Dale & Yvon • http://www.atala.org/Managing-noise-in-the-signal-Error