CfP: The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Friday, 31 July 2015
Country: 
China
City: 
Beijing
Contact: 
Lung-Hao Lee
Submission Deadline: 
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

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The 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing
Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-2)
with Shared Task on Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis (CGED)

July 31, 2015 at Beijing, China in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015

More Info: https://sites.google.com/site/nlptea2cged/
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Overview

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants can share knowledge on the computer-assisted language learning. For the past decade, research and development in theNLP community has advanced techniques for educational applications. For example, the NLPcommunity in North America organizes a series of workshops on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) to improve existing capabilities and to generate creative ways to useNLP in educational applications for writing, reading, assessment, and so on. In addition to research papers, several shared tasks were also organized, e.g. “Helping Our Own” (HOO) English grammatical error detection/correction competitions in 2011 and 2012, and Native Language Identification (NLI) competitions in 2013. Independent of the series of BEA workshops, the CoNLL-2013 shared task is on grammatical error correction for learner’s English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In addition, there is a SemEval shared task on student’s response analysis. All of these competitions will increase the visibility of educational application research in the NLP community.

However, the workshops and shared tasks mentioned above predominantly focus on English language learning. Unlike the English learning setting for which many learning technologies have been developed, learning tools to support Asian language learners are relatively rare. In response, we organized the first NLP-TEA workshop with a shared task on Chinese as a Foreign Language (NLP-TEA-1 & CFL) in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2014), which is the flagship conference in computer education area. The ICCE 2014 in Japan provides an ideal opportunity to bring together influential as well as aspiring researchers in computer education area, to deliberate and interact on a range of research issues. The purpose of NLP-TEA series is to identify challenging problems facing the development of computer-assisted techniques for Asian language learning, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. We solicit submissions of research studies on all topics related to NLP techniques for educational applications in terms of both full papers (8+2 pages) and short papers (4+2 pages) for either oral or poster presentation. We will give special attention to research that has taken computer-assisted Asian language learning into consideration. Besides, one of our key goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from computational linguistics and computer education areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Assessment of learners' language proficiency
· Automated essay scoring
· Educational Data Mining
· Error tagging editor / annotation schema
· Grammatical error detection / identification / correction
· Intelligent tutoring systems
· Language courseware development
· Learner corpus development / analysis / evaluation tools
· NLP tools for language learning
· Second language acquisition
· Sentence judgment system
· Spelling error check

Important Dates
· Paper Submission Due: May 7, 2015
· Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2015
· Camera-Ready Due: June 21, 2015
· Workshop Date: July 31, 2015

Workshop Co-organizers
· Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)
· Yuen-Hsien Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University)
· Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
· Lung Hsiang Wong (Nanyang Technological University)

Shared Task Co-organizers
· Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan University)
· Liang-Chih Yu (Yuan Ze University)
· Li-Ping Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)