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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 ACL BEA9 June 26, 2014 Joel Tetreault Jill Burstein Claudia Leacock
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
Numbers • Other Notes: • 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions • 2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks
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
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
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
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
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
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
Let’s Go! Stupid questions are more than welcome!!!