Natural Language Processing 4 All (NLP4All): A New Online Platform for Teaching and Learning NLP Concepts

Rebekah Baglini, Hermes Hjorth


Abstract
Natural Language Processing offers new insights into language data across almost all disciplines and domains, and allows us to corroborate and/or challenge existing knowledge. The primary hurdles to widening participation in and use of these new research tools are, first, a lack of coding skills in students across K-16, and in the population at large, and second, a lack of knowledge of how NLP-methods can be used to answer questions of disciplinary interest outside of linguistics and/or computer science. To broaden participation in NLP and improve NLP-literacy, we introduced a new tool web-based tool called Natural Language Processing 4 All (NLP4All). The intended purpose of NLP4All is to help teachers facilitate learning with and about NLP, by providing easy-to-use interfaces to NLP-methods, data, and analyses, making it possible for non- and novice-programmers to learn NLP concepts interactively.
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2021.teachingnlp-1.3
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2021.teachingnlp-1.3v1
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP
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June
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2021
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Online
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David Jurgens, Varada Kolhatkar, Lucy Li, Margot Mieskes, Ted Pedersen
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TeachingNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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28–33
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.teachingnlp-1.3
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10.18653/v1/2021.teachingnlp-1.3
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Rebekah Baglini and Hermes Hjorth. 2021. Natural Language Processing 4 All (NLP4All): A New Online Platform for Teaching and Learning NLP Concepts. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 28–33, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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