Hi all, Happy New Year...or belated Valentines Day. The BEA workshop would like to show its love with the latest newsletter. :) In this edition we have put together a list of all the upcoming EduNLP (and related) conferences, workshops and shared tasks as well as pointers to resources and papers that came out in the last few months.
I'd like to thank our new BEA Newsletter volunteers: Ekaterina Kochmar, Ildiko Pilan, Somwya V. B. and Helen Yannakoudakis for assisting in the writing of this newsletter. Thanks!
As always, if you know of any corpora, resources, tools, pubs, conferences, job postings, etc. that would be good to have on the newsletter, please let us know and they'll go in the next one.
Joel & BEA Friends
1. BEA10 Announcements
The deadline for the 10th edition of the BEA workshop is less than one month away - March 08. We hope you will be submitting something. If you are a reviewer, you will be receiving your account information and instructions soon.
2. Upcoming EduNLP Conferences and Workshops
* SLaTE Workshop on L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology: https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/
(deadline: May 01, dates: September 03; location: Leipzig, Germany)
* 2nd Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2):
(deadline: May 07; date: July 31; Beijing, China)
* Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED):
(registration deadline: Apr 01; date: July 31; Beijing, China)
* 4th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL)
(deadline: March 26; date: May 11; location: Vilnius, Lithuania)
* 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
(deadline: June 08; date: September 11; location: Dresden, Germany )
* Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP 2015):
Including a Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction
(paper submission deadline: May 14; date: July 30, location: Beijing, China)
* Workshop on Vision and Language Integration 2015 (VL'15):
(submission deadline: June 28; dates: September 18-19; location: Lisbon, Portugal)
There are also two workshops on NLP for noisy or user generated data, of which learner data is often grouped with:
* Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT)
(submission deadline: May 07; date: July 31; location: Beijing)
* Workshop on NLP for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015):
(submission deadline: April 17; date: June 23; location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
* Conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL)
(abstract deadline: February 15; submission deadline: June 30; dates: August 26-29; location: Padova, Italy)
3. Resources
* For those of you who deal with learner corpora, there is a Learner Corpus Association, though their website seems to be down: http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/
The LCA has associated workshops, mailing list and lists of resources.
* Transforming Assessment is about the use of e-assessment within online learning environments, particularly those using one or more Web 2.0 or virtual world technologies:
4. EduNLP Publications
A Hierarchical Classification Approach to Automated Essay Scoring, Danielle S. McNamara, Scott A.Crossley, Rod D.Roscoe, Laura K.Allen and Jianmin Dai. Assessing Writing 23 (2015) 35–59. doi:10.1016/j.asw.2014.09.002
The Eras and Trends of Automatic Short Answer Grading, Steven Burrows, Iryna Gurevych and Benno Stein. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. March 2015, Volume 25, Issue 1, pp 60-117
A readability level prediction tool for K-12 books. Joel Denning, Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23417
Simple or Not Simple? A Readability Question. Sanja Štajner, Ruslan Mitkov, and Gloria Corpas Pastor. Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon. Text, Speech and Language Technology Volume 48, 2015, pp 379-398.
Mathematical Language Processing: Automatic Grading and Feedback for Open Response Mathematical Questions. Andrew S. Lan, Divyanshu Vats, Andrew E. Waters and Richard G. Baraniuk. Learning at Scale, 2015. (Program of L@S 2015: http://learningatscale.acm.org/las2015/program/index.html)
Semantic Analysis-Enhanced Natural Language Interaction in Ubiquitous Learning. Dunwei Wen, Yan Gao and Guangbing Yang. Ubiquitous Learning Environments and Technologies. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology 2015, pp 119-137.
A Listenability Measuring Method for an Adaptive Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching System. Katsunori Kotani, Shota Ueda, Takehiko Yoshimi and Hiroaki Nanjo. In the Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28). pp 387-394.
Developing a corpus-based paraphrase tool to improve EFL learners' writing skills. M.-H. Chen, S.T. Huang, J.S. Chang and H.C. Liou. Computer Assisted Language Learning 28.1 (2015): 22-40.
Annotating article errors in Spanish learner texts: design and evaluation of an annotation scheme. Ibanez, Marıa del Pilar Valverde, and Akira Ohtani (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 234–243
Automatic Detection of Comma Splices. Lee, John, Chak Yan Yeung, and Martin Chodorow (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 551–560
Frequency-influenced choice of L2 sound realization and perception: evidence from two Chinese dialects. Lan, Yizhou (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 292–298
The L2 Acquisition of the Chinese Aspect Marking. Suying Yang (2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pages 299–308
A Tagging Editor for Learner Corpora Annotation and Error Analysis. Tseng, Yuen-Hsien, Liang-Chih Yu, and Hsin-Hsi Chen (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education.
Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English. Oscar Saz, Yibin Lin, Maxine Eskenaz (2015). Computer Speech & Language, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 49--64.
Native and non-native class discrimination using speech rhythm- and auditory-based cues. S.-A. Selouani, Y. Alotaibi, W. Cichocki, S. Gharsellaoui, K. Kadi (2015). Computer Speech & Language, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 28--48.
The Writing Pal Intelligent Tutoring System: Usability Testing and Development. Rod D. Roscoe, Laura K. Allen, Jennifer L. Weston, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara (2014). Computers and Composition, Volume 34, Pages 39--59.
