1. 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications ACL BEA9 June 26, 2014 Joel Tetreault Jill Burstein Claudia Leacock

2. Welcome! Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 9 th 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 1 st with invited speaker

3. Numbers Total Submissions Total Accepted OralPosterAcceptance Rate 20081813 -72% 20092412 -50% 20102813 -46% 2011362281461% 2012422481657% 201325159660% 2014352171460% Other Notes: 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions 2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks

4. Reviewer Honors NameAffiliationYears Martin ChodorowCity University of New York9 Derrick HigginsEducational Testing Service8 Diane LitmanUniversity of Pittsburgh8 Jennifer FosterDublin City University7 Michael GamonMicrosoft Research7 Na-Rae HanUniversity of Pittsburgh7 Ola KnutssonStockholm University7 John LeeCity University of Hong Kong7 Detmar MeurersUniversity of Tübingen7 Lisa MichaudMerrimack College7

5. Sponsors

6. BEA9 T-Shirts Design: Emilie Bennett- Kjenstad & Joya TetreaultEmilie Bennett- Kjenstad Joya Tetreault Great for a night out on the town or for staying in or as formal wear

7. 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 http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/acl-bea9.html

8. Dinner: 7:00 tonight Darbar: Cuisine of India – 1911 Aliceanna Street – http://www.darbarbaltimore.com/ http://www.darbarbaltimore.com Group movement: – Meet at first floor lobby – Leave at 6:30 sharp – 15min walk

9. Dinner Directions

10. EduNLP Announcements

11. 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 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) ACL Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) – June 26 @ Baltimorem USA

12. EduNLP: Upcoming 2014 Conferences EUROCALL 2014 – August 20-23 @ Groningen, The Netherlands Interspeech Special Session on Tutorial Dialogue and SDS Interspeech Special Session on Tutorial Dialogue and SDS – September 08-14 @ Singapore 1 st Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-1) 1 st Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-1) – November 30-04 @ Nara, Japan

13. Other EduNLP Events COLING Tutorial on Grammatical Error Correction – August 20 @ Dublin, Ireland Summer School on Learner Corpus Research: Corpus Approaches to Phraseology Summer School on Learner Corpus Research: Corpus Approaches to Phraseology – September 08-12 @ Louvain, Belgium

14. Let’s Go! Stupid questions are more than welcome!!!