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8 th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. NAACL BEA8 June 13, 2013. NLI 2013. Welcome!. Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 8 th workshop [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] Thanks to (a record) 73 reviewers!
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8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA8 June 13, 2013 NLI 2013
Welcome! • Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces • 8th workshop • [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] • Thanks to (a record) 73 reviewers! • Most registrations ever (63+) • First BEA with sponsors and t-shirts • There are no stupid questions! • Restaurant Tonight (7:00)
Numbers • Other Notes: • 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions • 2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks
BEA8 T-Shirts • Design: Joya Tetreault • Great for a night out on the town or for staying in • Might order more?
NLI 2013 Shared Task • Shared task on Native Language Identification • Organized by Tetreault, Blanchard and Cahill • 24 system description posters and 1 overview oral presentation • http://www.nlisharedtask2013.org/
Poster Session Notes • 6 BEA and 24 NLI papers spread over two poster sessions: • Session A: 1:50 – 2:40 • Session B: 2:40 – 3:30 • Presenters: set up at 1:40 • BEA8 Website has most up-to-date schedule • http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/naacl-bea8.html
Dinner: 7:00 tonight • Haveli Indian Cuisine • 225 Spring Street • http://www.haveli.moonfruit.com/ • Group movement: • Meet on 5th floor Starbucks • Leave at 6:50 • 5min walk
EduNLP: 2013 Conferences • 2nd Workshop on NLP for CALL • May 22 @ Oslo, Norway • ICALL in the Digital Age • May 22 @ Honolulu, USA • 1st Shared Task on Native Language Identification • June 13 @ Atlanta, USA • Workshop on NLP for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) • June 14 @ Atlanta, USA • SEMEVAL Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge • June 14 @ Atlanta, USA
EduNLP: 2013 Conferences • AI in Education (AIED) • July 09-13 @ Memphis, USA • CoNLL Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction • August 08-09 @ Sofia, Bulgaria • Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) • August 30-01 @ Grenoble, France • HLT for Language Learning (HLT4LL) • December 11 @ Nijmegen, the Netherlands