8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA8 June 13, 2013 NLI 2013

Welcome! Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 8 th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] Thanks to (a record) 73 reviewers! Most registrations ever (63+) First BEA with sponsors and t-shirts There are no stupid questions! Restaurant Tonight (7:00)

Reviewer Honors NameAffiliationYears Martin ChodorowCity University of New York8 Derrick HigginsEducational Testing Service7 Diane LitmanUniversity of Pittsburgh7 Jennifer FosterDublin City University6 Michael GamonMicrosoft Research6 Na-Rae HanUniversity of Pittsburgh6 Ola KnutssonStockholm University6 John LeeCity University of Hong Kong6 Detmar MeurersUniversity of Tübingen6 Lisa MichaudMerrimack College6

Numbers Total Submissions Total Accepted OralPosterAcceptance Rate % % % % % % Other Notes: 2008 and 2009 had one week extensions 2012 and 2013 numbers do not include shared tasks

Sponsors

BEA8 T-Shirts Design: Joya TetreaultJoya Tetreault Great for a night out on the town or for staying in Might order more?

NLI 2013 Shared Task Shared task on Native Language Identification Organized by Tetreault, Blanchard and Cahill 24 system description posters and 1 overview oral presentation

Poster Session Notes 6 BEA and 24 NLI papers spread over two poster sessions: – Session A: 1:50 – 2:40 – Session B: 2:40 – 3:30 Presenters: set up at 1:40 BEA8 Website has most up-to-date schedule –

Dinner: 7:00 tonight Haveli Indian Cuisine – 225 Spring Street – Group movement: – Meet on 5 th floor Starbucks – Leave at 6:50 – 5min walk

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EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: 2013 Conferences 2 nd Workshop on NLP for CALL 2 nd Workshop on NLP for CALL – May Oslo, Norway ICALL in the Digital Age – May Honolulu, USA 1 st Shared Task on Native Language Identification 1 st Shared Task on Native Language Identification – June Atlanta, USA Workshop on NLP for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) Workshop on NLP for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) – June Atlanta, USA SEMEVAL Joint Student Response Analysis and 8 th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge SEMEVAL Joint Student Response Analysis and 8 th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge – June Atlanta, USA

EduNLP: 2013 Conferences AI in Education (AIED) – July Memphis, USA CoNLL Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction – August Sofia, Bulgaria Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) – August Grenoble, France HLT for Language Learning (HLT4LL) – December Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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