1. 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA10 June 04, 2015 Joel Tetreault Jill Burstein Claudia Leacock

2. Welcome! Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 10 th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008 - 2015] Thanks to (a record) 101 reviewers! – Last two years were 96 and 73 58+ registrants! – 2 nd highest (2013: 63+ but +shared task) 3rd BEA with sponsors and t-shirts

3. 10 Years of History BEA3:Columbus (2008) BEA4: Boulder BEA5: Los Angeles BEA6: Portland BEA7: Montreal BEA8: Atlanta BEA9: Baltimore BEA10: Denver BEA1: Edmonton (2003) BEA2: Ann Arbor (2005)

4. Numbers Total Submissions Total Accepted OralPosterAcceptance Rate 20081813 -72% 20092412 -50% 20102813 -46% 2011362281461% 2012422481657% 201325159660% 2014352171460% 20154429101966% Other Notes: 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions 2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks

5. Reviewer Honors NameAffiliationYears Martin ChodorowCity University of New York10 Derrick HigginsCivis Analytics9 Diane LitmanUniversity of Pittsburgh8 Jennifer FosterDublin City University8 Michael GamonMicrosoft Research8 Ola KnutssonStockholm University8 John LeeCity University of Hong Kong8 Detmar MeurersUniversity of Tübingen8 Lisa MichaudMerrimack College8

6. Sponsors

7. Newsletter This past year have started a quasi-monthly newsletter of EduNLP resources, events, links to papers, job postings, etc. Thanks to our brilliant volunteers: – Ekaterina Kochmar Ekaterina Kochmar – Ildiko Pilan Ildiko Pilan – Sowmya Vajjala Sowmya Vajjala – Helen Yannakoudakis Helen Yannakoudakis

8. BEA10 T-Shirts Design: Joya TetreaultJoya Tetreault Great for a night out on the town or for staying in or as formal wear

9. Poster Session Notes 20 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 Shared Task proposal also presented as poster BEA10 Website has schedule – http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/naacl-bea10.html http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/tetreaul/naacl-bea10.html

10. Dinner: 7:00 tonight Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant – 1525 Blake Street – https://www.riograndemexican.com/locations/denver/ https://www.riograndemexican.com/locations/denver/ Group movement: – Meet at registration desk – Leave at 6:30 sharp – 20min walk

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12. EduNLP Announcements

13. EduNLP: Previous 2015 Conferences 4th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) 4th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) – May 11 @ Vilnius, Lithuania

14. EduNLP: Upcoming 2015 Conferences Workshop on NLP for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015) – June 23 @Rotterdam Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP) – Including a Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction – July 30 @ Beijing 2nd Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2) 2nd Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2) – July 31 @ Beijing Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED) – July 31 @ Beijing SLaTE Workshop on L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology – September 03 @ Leipzig, Germany

15. EduNLP: Upcoming 2015 Conferences Conference of the European Association for Computer- Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) Conference of the European Association for Computer- Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) – August 26-29 @ Padova, Italy Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) – September 5-11 @ Hissar, Bulgaria 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) – September 11 @ Dresden, Germany

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