Hi all,
The BEA11 workshop is quickly approaching and we thought it would be a good time to send out a newsletter. This one contains the following:
BEA11 Information
EduNLP Publications
Other Upcoming EduNLP conferences and workshops
I'm acutally amazed at how many educational related papers are being published this year in major conferences such as ACL, IJCAI, NAACL, LREC, etc. This has to be banner year for research in this field! Check out point 2 below.
As always, I'd like to thank Ekaterina Kochmar, Ildiko Pilan, and Sowmya V. B. for once again helping with putting together another information packed newsletter. And as always, if you know of someone who would want to be on the email list, please have them fill out the following form (I've also added BEA11 accepted paper authors to this current email, but if you are interested in receiving the bi-monthly newsletter, also fill out the below):
Hope you have a good start to the new year and look forward to seeing you in 2016!
Best,
Joel & BEA Organization
1. BEA11 Announcements
The BEA11 workshop takes place this coming Thursday, June 16. We hope that many of you will be able to attend. The program can be found here:
And you can download papers here from this temporary site:
Registration is still open and can be accessed here:
We are also proud to announce that we are hosting the first shared task on "Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing":
As in the last few years, we will have free BEA t-shirts for all who register. These shirts can be picked up at the workshop. And as always, we will be having our world-famous post-workshop dinner following the conclusion of the workshop Thursday night. We hope you can join us for dinner then; details to be announced during the workshop.
Finally, if you have any announcements on relevant events, resources, job postings, etc. and would like them advertised at the workshop, please let me know before Wednesday 17:00 PST.
2. Recent Pubs in EduNLP
LREC
CItA: an L1 Italian Learners Corpus to Study the Development of Writing Competence, Alessia Barbagli, Pietro Lucisano, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni and Giulia Venturi.
The COPLE2 corpus: a learner corpus for Portuguese, Amália Mendes, Sandra Antunes, Maarten Janssen and Anabela Gonçalves.
Compilation of an Arabic Children's Corpus, Latifa Al-Sulaiti, Noorhan Abbas, Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell and Ayman Alghamdi.
SubCo: A Learner Translation Corpus of Human and Machine Subtitles, José Manuel Martínez Martínez and Mihaela Vela.
CItA: an L1 Italian Learners Corpus to Study the Development of Writing Competence, Alessia Barbagli, Pietro Lucisano, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni and Giulia Venturi.
Design and Development of the MERLIN Learner Corpus Platform, Verena Lyding and Karin Schöne.
French Learners Audio Corpus of German Speech (FLACGS), Jane Wottawa and Martine Adda-Decker.
The Uppsala Corpus of Student Writings: Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Analysis, Beata Megyesi, Jesper Näsman and Anne Palmér.
OSMAN ― A Novel Arabic Readability Metric, Mahmoud El-Haj and Paul Rayson.
Nora Al-Twairesh, Abeer Al-Dayel, Hend Al-Khalifa, Maha Al-Yahya, Sinaa Alageel, Nora Abanmy and Nouf Al-Shenaifi.
Victoria Yaneva, Irina Temnikova and Ruslan Mitkov.
Analysis of English Spelling Errors in a Word-Typing Game, Ryuichi Tachibana and Mamoru Komachi.
Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource, Anaïs Tack, Thomas Francois, Anne-Laure Ligozat and Cédrick Fairon.
B2SG: a TOEFL-like Task for Portuguese, Rodrigo Wilkens, Leonardo Zilio, Eduardo Ferreira and Aline Villavicencio.
What a Nerd! Beating Students and Vector Cosine in the ESL and TOEFL Datasets, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu and Chu-Ren Huang.
Palabras: Crowdsourcing Transcriptions of L2 Speech, Eric Sanders, Pepi Burgos, Catia Cucchiarini and Roeland van Hout.
The Validation of MRCPD Cross-language Expansions on Imageability Ratings, Ting Liu, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh and Mehrdad Mirzaei.
Unsupervised Ranked Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution for Low-Resource Languages, Stefan Ecker, Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater.
Improving POS Tagging of German Learner Language in a Reading Comprehension Scenario, Lena Keiper, Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater.
SweLL on the rise: Swedish Learner Language corpus for European Reference Level studies, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Lorena Llozhi, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg and Monica Sandell.
SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners, Thomas Francois, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán and Anaïs Tack.
Detecting Word Usage Errors in Chinese Sentences for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language, Yow-Ting Shiue and Hsin-Hsi Chen.
Leveraging Native Data to Correct Preposition Errors in Learners' Dutch, Lennart Kloppenburg and Malvina Nissim.
Chatbot Technology with Synthetic Voices in the Acquisition of an Endangered Language: Motivation, Development and Evaluation of a Platform for Irish, Neasa Ní Chiaráin and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide.
A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?, Claudia Baur, Johanna Gerlach, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell and Helmer Strik.
DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant, Salam Khalifa, Houda Bouamor and Nizar Habash.
Error Typology and Remediation Strategies for Requirements Written in English by Non-Native Speakers, Marie Garnier and Patrick Saint-Dizier.
Joining-in-type Humanoid Robot Assisted Language Learning System, AlBara Khalifa, Tsuneo Kato and Seiichi Yamamoto.
Predicting Reading Difficulty for Readers with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Victoria Yaneva, Richard Evans and Irina Temnikova. ISI-NLP (Improving Social Inclusion using NLP) LREC Workshop.
SimplexEduReading: Simplification of Natural Language for Reading Comprehension Improvement in Education, Estela Saquete, Ruben Izquierdo Bevia and Sonia Vazquez. ISI-NLP (Improving Social Inclusion using NLP) LREC Workshop.
NAACL
Derry Tanti Wijaya and Tom Mitchell
Predicting Student Essay Structure
Isaac Persing
Chen-Tse Tsai and Dan Roth
Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, Guillaume Lample, Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Alan W Black, Lori Levin and Chris Dyer
Wencan Luo, Fei Liu, Zitao Liu and Diane Litman
Kriste Krstovski and David Smith
Discriminative Reranking for Grammatical Error Correction with Statistical Machine Translation
Tomoya Mizumoto and Yuji Matsumoto
Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy
Md Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar and Tamara Sumner
Grammatical error correction using neural machine translation
Zheng Yuan and Ted Briscoe
He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Hal Daumé III
Angeliki Lazaridou, Grzegorz Chrupała, Raquel Fernandez and Marco Baroni
Ji Young Lee and Franck Dernoncourt
This is how we do it: Answer Reranking for Open-domain How Questions with Paragraph Vectors and Minimal Feature Engineering
Dasha Bogdanova and Jennifer Foster
Using Context to Predict the Purpose of Argumentative Writing Revisions
Fan Zhang and Diane Litman
NAACL WORKSHOPS
The 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP
Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages
Markus Saers and Dekai Wu
Comparing Fifty Natural Languages and Twelve Genetic Languages Using Word Embedding Language Divergence (WELD) as a Quantitative Measure of Language Distance Ehsaneddin Asgari and Mohammad R.K. Mofrad
ACL
A CALL system for learning preposition usage John Lee A Thorough Examination of the CNN / Daily Mail Reading Comprehension Task Danqi Chen, Jason Bolton and Christopher D. Manning Automatic Stance Classification of Argumentative Essays Isaac Persing Automatic Text Scoring Using Neural Networks Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Helen Yannakoudakis and Marek Rei Compositional Sequence Labeling Models for Error Detection in Learner Writing Marek Rei and Helen Yannakoudakis Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring Ronan Cummins, Meng Zhang and Ted Briscoe Cross-Lingual Lexico-Semantic Transfer in Language Learning Ekaterina Kochmar and Ekaterina Shutova Easy Questions First? Curriculum Learning for Question Answering Mrinmaya Sachan and Eric Xing Grammatical Error Correction: Machine Translation and Classifiers Alla Rozovskaya and Dan Roth Learning Language Games through Interaction Sida I. Wang, Percy Liang and Christopher D. Manning Off-topic Response Detection for Spontaneous Spoken English Assessment Andrey Malinin, Rogier van Dalen, Kate Knill, Yu Wang and Mark Gales Phrase Structure Annotation and Parsing for Learner English Ryo Nagata and Keisuke Sakaguchi Universal Dependencies for Learner English Yevgeni Berzak, Jessica Kenney, Carolyn Spadine, Jing Xian Wang, Lucia Lam, Keiko Sophie Mori, Sebastian Garza and Boris Katz User Modeling in Language Learning with Macaronic Texts Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn and Jason Eisner
Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials Mrinmaya Sachan, Kumar Dubey and Eric Xing ACL Demos CREATING INTERACTIVE MACARONIC INTERFACES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING Adithya Renduchintala, Rebecca Knowles, Philipp Koehn and Jason Eisner LANGUAGE MUSE: AUTOMATED LINGUISTIC ACTIVITY GENERATION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein, John Sabatini, Kietha Biggers and Slava Andreyev MY SCIENCE TUTOR—LEARNING SCIENCE WITH A CONVERSATIONAL VIRTUAL TUTOR Sameer Pradhan, Ron Cole and Wayne Ward ONLINE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING Maria Chinkina, Madeeswaran Kannan and Detmar Meurers PERSONALIZED EXERCISES FOR PREPOSITION LEARNING John Lee and Mengqi Luo
IJCAI
Neural Network Translation Models for Grammatical Error Correction
Shamil Chollampatt, Kaveh Taghipour, Hwee Tou Ng
Exploiting N-Best Hypotheses to Improve an SMT Approach to Grammatical Error Correction
Duc Tam Hoang, Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng
Parse Tree Fragmentation of Ungrammatical Sentences
Homa B. Hashemi and Rebecca Hwa
OTHER
Allen Schmaltz Yoon Kim Alexander M. Rush Stuart M. Shieber
Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Courtney Napoles, Matt Post, and Joel Tetreault
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz
3. Upcoming Edu/NLP Events
Joint 5th Workshop on NLP4CALL (NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) and 1st Workshop on NLP4LA (NLP for Research in Language Acquisition): https://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/joint5thNLP4CALL-1stNLP4LA2016
(deadline: September 27, date: November 16, 2016, location: Umeå, Sweden)
TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES (TAL) Special issue on NLP FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING
(deadline: September 30, date: June 30, 2017)
(to be published Q1 2017)
(Gießen, Germany; July 20-23, 2016)
(San Francisco, CA, USA; September 06-07, 2016)
(San Francisco, CA, USA; September 06-07, 2016)
CSL special isssue on Language and Interaction Technologies for Children
(target publication date: January 01, 2017)
