5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

1. 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA-5 June 05, 2010

2. Welcome! • 5th workshop • [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010] • Thanks to 36 reviewers! • There are no stupid questions! • Restaurant Tonight (6:30)

3. Numbers * 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions

4. Dinner: 6:30 tonight • Casa Cocina Y Cantina • 350 South Grand Ave (between 3rd and 4th) • http://www.casadowntown.com/

5. Dinner Directions

6. EduNLP Announcements

7. EduNLP: Conferences • Wkshp on Computational Linguistics and Writing: Writing Processes and Authoring Aids [June 06, 2010 @ Los Angeles] • http://lingured.info/clw2010/ • ITS [June 14-18, 2010 @ Pittsburgh] • http://sites.google.com/site/its2010home/ • SLaTE [September 22-24, 2010 @ Tokyo] • http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/L2WS2010/ • SLaTE [2011 @ Venice]

8. EduNLP: Publications • The Special Issue of Speech Communication on “Spoken Language Technologies for Education” • [Maxine Eskenazi (ed), October 2009] • Synthesis Series book “Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners ” • [Leacock et al., May 2010] • http://www.morganclaypool.com/

9. EduNLP: Employment • Marie Curie Fellowship • "Connecting ICALL Research and Development to Foreign Language Teaching Needs" • ICALL project [Detmar Meurers] • http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ • Educational Testing Service • NLP Research Scientist Position (Content Scoring) • NLP Software Engineer

10. EduNLP: Resources • REAP • Find documents from the Web at user-specified reading levels (free!) [Maxine Eskanazi] • reap.cs.cmu.edu • Microsoft Web N-gram Services • http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/cs/bingiton.aspx

11. Let’s Go!