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

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

3. Numbers Total Submissions AcceptedAcceptance Rate 2008*181372% 2009*241250% 2010281346% * 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions

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