7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for
Building Educational Applications

• NAACL BEA7
• June 07, 2012

HOO 2012
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Welcome!

• 7th workshop
• 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Largest ever (9 oral, 30 poster)
• Workshop Focus Fitting Applications in
  Educational Problem Spaces
• Thanks to (a record) 69 reviewers!
• There are no stupid questions!
• Restaurant Tonight (700)

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Educational Problem Spaces

• Development of Curriculum Materials and
  Assessments
• Delivery of Curriculum Materials and Assessments
• Reporting of Scores and Outcomes

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Numbers
Total Submissions Accepted Acceptance Rate
2008 18 13 72
2009 24 12 50
2010 28 13 46
2011 36 22 61
2012 42 24 57
2008 and 2009 had one week extensions 2011 8
oral, 14 poster 2012 8 oral, 16 poster
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HOO-2012 Shared Task

• Shared task on grammatical error detection
• Organized by Robert Dale et al.
• 14 system description posters and 1 overview oral
  presentation
• http//clt.mq.edu.au/research/projects/hoo/hoo201
  2/

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Dinner 700 tonight

• Kashmir Restaurant
• 138, Rue Saint-Paul Est, Montreal
• http//www.restaurantkashmir.com/main.php
• Group movement
• Meet in 1st Floor lobby at 610
• Leave at 615
• 30min walk

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Dinner Directions
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EduNLP Announcements
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EduNLP Conferences

• IS ADEPT June 06-08, 2012 _at_ Stockholm
• Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation
  Training
• http//www.speech.kth.se/isadept/
• ITS June 14-18, 2012 _at_ Chania, Greece
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• http//its2012.teicrete.gr/
• EDM June 19-21, 2012 _at_ Chania, Greece
• Educational Data Mining
• http//educationaldatamining.org/EDM2012/

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EduNLP Journals

• ATALA Journal
• Managing Noise in the Signal Error handling in
  NLP
• Dale Yvon
• http//www.atala.org/Managing-noise-in-the-signal-
  Error

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Lets Go!