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

Welcome! Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces 9 th workshop – [2003, 2005, ] Thanks to (a record) 96 reviewers! – Previous total was 73 in registrants! 2nd BEA with sponsors and t-shirts 1 st with invited speaker

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

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

Sponsors

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

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 –

Dinner: 7:00 tonight Darbar: Cuisine of India – 1911 Aliceanna Street – Group movement: – Meet at first floor lobby – Leave at 6:30 sharp – 15min walk

Dinner Directions

EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: Previous 2014 Conferences NIPS Workshop on Data-Driven Education – Dec 10, 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 Gothenburg, Sweden Intelligent Tutoring Systems – June Honolulu, USA ACL Workshop on Argument Mining – June 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 Baltimorem USA

EduNLP: Upcoming 2014 Conferences EUROCALL 2014 – August Groningen, The Netherlands Interspeech Special Session on Tutorial Dialogue and SDS Interspeech Special Session on Tutorial Dialogue and SDS – September 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 Nara, Japan

Other EduNLP Events COLING Tutorial on Grammatical Error Correction – August Dublin, Ireland Summer School on Learner Corpus Research: Corpus Approaches to Phraseology Summer School on Learner Corpus Research: Corpus Approaches to Phraseology – September Louvain, Belgium

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