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