1. 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications NAACL BEA7 June 07, 2012 HOO 2012

2. 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)

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

4. Numbers Total Submissions AcceptedAcceptance Rate 2008*181372% 2009*241250% 2010281346% 20113622 + 61% 20124224 ++ 57% *2008 and 2009 had one week extensions + 2011: 8 oral, 14 poster ++ 2012: 8 oral, 16 poster

5. 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 http://clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/hoo2012/ http://clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/hoo2012/

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

7. Dinner Directions

8. EduNLP Announcements

9. EduNLP: Conferences IS ADEPT [June 06-08, 2012 @ Stockholm] – Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training – http://www.speech.kth.se/isadept/ http://www.speech.kth.se/isadept/ ITS [June 14-18, 2012 @ Chania, Greece] – Intelligent Tutoring Systems – http://its2012.teicrete.gr/ http://its2012.teicrete.gr/ EDM [June 19-21, 2012 @ Chania, Greece] – Educational Data Mining – http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2012/ http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2012/

10. EduNLP: Journals ATALA Journal – “Managing Noise in the Signal: Error handling in NLP” – Dale & Yvon – http://www.atala.org/Managing-noise-in-the-signal-Error

11. Let’s Go!