https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=2026Q3_Reports%3A_SIGEDU2026Q3 Reports: SIGEDU - Revision history2026-07-04T11:34:14ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2026Q3_Reports:_SIGEDU&diff=76928&oldid=prevEKochmar: BEA 2026 report2026-06-12T16:45:25Z<p>BEA 2026 report</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>**'''Membership''': SIGEDU has 486 members.<br />
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**'''Officers''': Officers were elected to serve from 2021 - 2026 as follows: Ekaterina Kochmar, Chair; Andrea Horbach, Secretary; Zheng Yuan, Treasurer. Next elections will be held in 2026.<br />
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**'''Board''': The SIGEDU Committee is composed of Ekaterina Kochmar, Andrea Horbach, Zheng Yuan, Jill Burstein, Nitin Madnani, Anais Tack, and Victoria Yaneva. Ronja Laarmann-Quante and Marie Bexte are a continuing members, and Stefano Banno and Bashar Alhafni are new members of the Organizing Committee for the annual workshop for Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application (BEA).<br />
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**'''Workshop''': The SIG’s major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2026, the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application (BEA) was held in a hybrid mode – in San Diego in conjunction with ACL 2026 and online. It was run as a 2-day workshop for the second year in a row, but for the first time, we had one dedicated virtual and one in-person day. BEA 2026 received 132 submissions to the main workshop track and accepted 64 papers (48% acceptance rate). In addition, we also hosted two shared tasks on ''Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners'' and ''Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German'', which attracted participation from multiple international teams; a half-day tutorial on ''Theory of Mind and Application in Educational Context''; and a panel on ''Transitioning from Academia to the EdTech Industry''. The SIG intends to submit a workshop proposal to an ACL-sponsored conference in 2027.<br />
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**'''Other activities''': The SIG is on the Board of the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Age (IAALDE). Part of this relationship involves selecting a paper from the SIG’s workshop to be presented at another venue associated with other Board members upon demand. This is an effort to cross-pollinate across AI in education organizations.<br />
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**'''Website and mailing list''': We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to BEA proceedings. New members can sign up through a form on the website.</div>EKochmar