7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA7 June 07, 2012 HOO 2012

Welcome! 7 th workshop – [2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] – Largest ever (9 oral, 30 poster) Workshop Focus: Fitting Applications in Educational Problem Spaces Thanks to (a record) 69 reviewers! There are no stupid questions! Restaurant Tonight (7:00)

Educational Problem Spaces Development of Curriculum Materials and Assessments Delivery of Curriculum Materials and Assessments Reporting of Scores and Outcomes

Numbers Total Submissions AcceptedAcceptance Rate 2008*181372% 2009*241250% % % % *2008 and 2009 had one week extensions : 8 oral, 14 poster : 8 oral, 16 poster

HOO-2012 Shared Task Shared task on grammatical error detection Organized by Robert Dale et al. 14 system description posters and 1 overview oral presentation

Dinner: 7:00 tonight Kashmir Restaurant – 138, Rue Saint-Paul Est, Montreal – Group movement: – Meet in 1 st Floor lobby at 6:10 – Leave at 6:15 – 30min walk

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EduNLP Announcements

EduNLP: Conferences IS ADEPT [June 06-08, Stockholm] – Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training – ITS [June 14-18, Chania, Greece] – Intelligent Tutoring Systems – EDM [June 19-21, Chania, Greece] – Educational Data Mining –

EduNLP: Journals ATALA Journal – “Managing Noise in the Signal: Error handling in NLP” – Dale & Yvon –

Let’s Go!