FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
			    NAACL-HLT 2010 
 
     The 5th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building
		       Educational Applications 

		Los Angeles, California, USA; June 05 or 06, 2010 
 
	http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea5.html 
 
		 Submission Deadline: March 01, 2010




WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION 
 
NLP-based applications in educational environments continue to develop at a 
fast pace. Initial work began as early as the 1960s on evaluating open-ended 
assessments, text-based intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), and proofreading 
tools. These fields continue to progress using innovative NLP techniques -
statistical, rule-based, or some combination of the two. More recently, new 
technologies have made it possible to include speech in both assessment and 
ITS. From a somewhat different angle, NLP techniques are also being used to 
generate assessments and tools for curriculum development as well as tools to 
support assessment development. As a community we are improving existing 
capabilities, and identifying and generating innovative ways to use NLP in 
applications for writing, reading, speaking, critical thinking, and assessment 
development.

The need for, and the rapid development of, language-based capabilities have 
been driven by increased requirements for state and national assessments, and a
 growing population of foreign and second language learners. In the past ten 
years, steady growth in the area of NLP-based applications for education has 
prompted an increased number of workshops which typically focus on one specific
 aspect of NLP-based educational applications. In this workshop, we solicit 
papers from all subfields. 

The workshops on the Innovative Use of NLP in Building Educational Applications
 have continued to bring together all these subfields to foster interaction and
 collaboration among researchers in both academic institutions and industry.  
Last year’s workshop (NAACL/HLT 2009) was a banner year with a record number 
of submissions and attendees.  The 2010 workshop (consistent with previous 
workshops at ACL 1997, NAACL/HLT 2003, ACL 2005, ACL 2008, and NAACL/HLT 2009) 
will continue to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with 
the hope that they will continue to identify novel opportunities for the use of
 NLP techniques and tools in educational applications.   

The workshop will include a demo session for accepted papers that involve a 
system. 

Full paper and short paper topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following: 



1) Automated scoring/evaluation for oral and written student responses
      * Content analysis for scoring/assessment
      * Grammatical error detection and correction
      * Discourse and stylistic analysis
      * Plagiarism detection     
      * Machine translation for assessment, instruction and curriculum 
        development

 
2) Intelligent Tutoring (IT) that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods   
      * Dialogue systems in education
      * Hypothesis formation and testing
      * Multi-modal communication between students and computers
      * Generation of tutorial responses
      * Knowledge representation in learning systems
      * Concept visualization in learning systems 

3) Learner cognition
      * Assessment of learners' language and cognitive skill levels
      * Systems that detect and adapt to learners' cognitive or emotional states
      * Tools for learners with special needs 

4) Use of corpora in educational tools
      * Data mining of learner and other corpora for tool building
      * Annotation standards and schemas / annotator agreement 

5) Tools for classroom teachers and/or test developers
      * NLP tools for second and foreign language learners
      * Semantic-based access to instructional materials to identify 
        appropriate texts
      * Tools that automatically generate test questions such as multiple 
        choice or short answer
      * Processing of and access to lecture materials across topics and genres
      * Adaptation of instructional text to individual learners' grade levels 
      * E-learning tools for personalized course content
      * Language-based educational games 
 
6) Issues concerning the evaluation of NLP-based educational tools

 
7) Descriptions of implemented systems 


SUBMISSION INFORMATION 
Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF 
format (with up to 1 additional page for references). This year, we also 
invite short papers of up to 4 pages (including references).  Papers which 
describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system.  If you 
would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please
make sure to select either "full paper + demo" or "short paper + demo" in the 
START submission process.

Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be 
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure 
that papers are anonymous.  Self-references that reveal the author's identity, 
e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, 
use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  

Please use the 2010 NAACL-HLT style sheet for composing your paper:
http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/authors.html

And use the following START conference page to submit your paper:
https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/education/



IMPORTANT DATES 
 
Submission deadline: March 01, 2010 
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2010 
Camera-ready papers due: April 19, 2010
Workshop: June 05 or 06, 2010



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Joel Tetreault, ETS, USA (principal contact: JTetreault@ets.org)
Jill Burstein, ETS, USA
Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group, USA



PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Delphine Bernhard, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Jared Bernstein, Pearson, USA
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, CUNY, USA 
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA
Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA 
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Peter Foltz, Pearson, USA
Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland 
Annette Frank, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA 
Caroline Gasperin, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Iryna Gurevych, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Na-Rae Han, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Trude Heift, Simon Frasier University, Canada 
Derrick Higgins, ETS, USA 
Emi Izumi, NICT, Japan 
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ola Knutsson, KTH Nada, Sweden 
John Lee, City University of Hong Kong, China 
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Detmar Meurers, University of Tubingen, Germany 
Lisa Michaud, Saint Anselm College, USA 
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington, USA
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA 
Dan Roth, UIUC, USA
Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA 
Richard Sproat, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA 
Jana Sukkarieh, ETS, USA 
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University, UK 
Nai-Lung Tsao, National Central University, Taiwan
Pete Whitelock, Oxford University Press, UK
David Wible, National Central University, Taiwan 
Magdalena Wolska, Saarbruken University, Germany