SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
			    NAACL-HLT 2009 
 
     The 4th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building
		       Educational Applications 

		Boulder, Colorado; June 05, 2009 
 
	http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea4.html 
 
		 Submission Deadline: March 13, 2009 (deadline extended) 




WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION 
 
The Innovative Use of NLP in Educational Applications workshops have fostered 
interaction and collaboration among researchers in intelligent tutoring systems
 (ITS) using text and speech, scoring of free-response assessments and 
proofreading tools. This workshop will continue to explore NLP technologies 
with the goal of identifying novel use of NLP techniques and tools for the 
development of educational applications. 
 

We are increasing the scope of this workshop to include the following:

1. A demo session for accepted papers that involve a system.
2. Preliminary planning session for the first shared task of the workshop: grammatical error detection of articles and prepositions for 2010.

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 
      * assist in text-based curriculum development
      * E-learning tools for personalized course content
      * Language-based educational games 

6) Issues involving the shared tasks for the 2010 Workshop: Grammatical error 
detection and correction

 
7) Issues concerning the evaluation of NLP-based educational tools

 
8) 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 2009 NAACL-HLT style sheet for composing your paper:
http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/stylefiles.html

And use the following START conference page to submit your paper:
https://www.softconf.com/naacl-hlt09/EducationNLP2009/



IMPORTANT DATES 
 
Submission deadline: March 13, 2009 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) 
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2009 
Camera-ready papers due: April 12, 2009 
Workshop: June 05, 2009



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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



PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
 
Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, CUNY, USA 
Bill Dolan, Microsoft, USA 
Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University, Ireland 
Michael Gamon, Microsoft, USA 
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Na-Rae Han, Korea University, Korea 
Trude Heift, Simon Frasier University, Canada 
Derrick Higgins, ETS, USA 
Emi Izumi, NICT, Japan 
Ola Knutsson, KTH Nada, Sweden 
John Lee, MIT, USA 
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Detmar Meurers, University of Tubingen, Germany 
Lisa Michaud, Saint Anselm College, USA 
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Mathias Schulze, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA 
Richard Sproat, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA 
Jana Sukkarieh, ETS, USA 
David Wible, National Central University, Taiwan