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

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

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

Dinner: 6:30 tonight Casa Cocina Y Cantina – 350 South Grand Ave (between 3 rd and 4 th ) –

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EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: Conferences Wkshp on Computational Linguistics and Writing: Writing Processes and Authoring Aids [June 06, Los Angeles] – ITS [June 14-18, Pittsburgh] – SLaTE [September 22-24, Tokyo] – SLaTE Venice]

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] –

EduNLP: Employment Marie Curie Fellowship – "Connecting ICALL Research and Development to Foreign Language Teaching Needs" – ICALL project [Detmar Meurers] – Educational Testing Service – NLP Research Scientist Position (Content Scoring) – NLP Software Engineer

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 –

Let’s Go!