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The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024)
Mexico City
Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)
(co-located with NAACL 2024)
https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has over 370 members.
The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya (Queens College, CUNY), an invited paper presentation by a member of one of the educational societies from the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE), oral presentation sessions, and a large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. This year, the workshop is also hosting two shared tasks: on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time and on Multilingual Lexical Simplification. We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will solicit long, short and demo papers for either oral or poster presentation.
We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to:
• use of LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts
• automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
• automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres);
• game-based instruction and assessment;
• educational data mining;
• intelligent tutoring;
• collaborative learning environments;
• peer review;
• grammatical error detection and correction;
• learner cognition;
• spoken dialog;
• multimodal applications;
• annotation standards and schemas;
• tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and
• use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED TALKS
The workshop will feature a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya (Queens College, CUNY) and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE societies.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
• Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, April 14, 2024
• Camera-ready Papers Due: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
• Workshop: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)