First Call for Papers

The 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA 2023)

Toronto

Thursday, July 13, 2023

(co-located with ACL 2023)

https://sig-edu.org/bea/current

 *Submission Deadline: Monday, April 24, 2023, 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)
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGEDU>
in 2017, which currently has over 300 members.



We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not
limited to:

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   automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
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   automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across
   multiple genres);
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   game-based instruction and assessment;
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   educational data mining;
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   intelligent tutoring;
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   collaborative learning environments;
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   peer review;
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   grammatical error detection and correction;
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   learner cognition;
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   spoken dialog;
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   multimodal applications;
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   annotation standards and schemas;
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   tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
   developers; and
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   use of corpora in educational tools.



INVITED TALKS



The workshop will feature invited talks from Susan Lottridge (Cambium
Assessment) and Jordana Heller (Textio), as well as a speaker from one of
the IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/> societies.


IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).

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   Anonymity Period Begins: *Friday, March 24, 2023*
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   Submission Deadline: Monday, April 24, 2023
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   Notification of Acceptance: Monday, May 22, 2023
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   Camera-ready Papers Due: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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   Workshop: Thursday, July 13, 2023



SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this
year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages
of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will
be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’
comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to
four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance,
short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’
comments in their final versions. Papers which describe systems are also
invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo
in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either
“long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in
the START submission page.

Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s
identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”.

We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You
should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are
from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of
this paper or discussed it with you.

We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/bea2023/

DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY

We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy
<https://www.aclweb.org/archive/policies/current/double-submission-policy.html>.
Specifically:

Papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must:

●       Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which
they are being submitted.

●       State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their
paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn
from other conferences and workshops.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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   Ekaterina Kochmar <https://ekochmar.github.io/about/>, MBZUAI
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   Jill Burstein <https://sites.google.com/site/jbursteinets/>, Duolingo
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   Andrea Horbach <https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/andrea-horbach/>,
FernUniversität
   in Hagen
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   Ronja Laarmann-Quante
   <https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/ronja-laarmann-quante>, Ruhr University
   Bochum
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   Nitin Madnani <https://desilinguist.org/>, Educational Testing Service
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   Anaïs Tack <https://anaistack.github.io/>, KU Leuven
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   Victoria Yaneva <http://www.victoriayaneva.info/>, National Board of
   Medical Examiners
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   Zheng Yuan <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~zy249/>, King’s College London
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   Torsten Zesch <https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/torsten-zesch>,
FernUniversität
   in Hagen



Workshop contact email address: [email protected]
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