BEA 2014 - 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. Given the broad scope of the workshop, we organize the workshop around three central themes in the educational infrastructure:
Development of curriculum and assessment (e.g., applications that help teachers develop reading materials)
Delivery of curriculum and assessments (e.g., applications where the student receives instruction and interacts with the system);
Reporting of assessment outcomes (e.g., automated scoring of open-ended responses)
Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
Automated scoring/evaluation for oral and written student responses
Content analysis for scoring/assessment
Analysis of the structure of argumentation
Grammatical error detection and correction
Discourse and stylistic analysis
Plagiarism detection
Machine translation for assessment, instruction and curriculum development
Detection of non-literal language (e.g., metaphor)
Sentiment analysis
Intelligent Tutoring (IT) that incorporates state-of-the-art NLP methods
Dialogue systems in education
Hypothesis formation and testing
Multi-modal communication between students and computers
Generation of tutorial responses
Knowledge representation in learning systems
Concept visualization in learning systems
Learner cognition
Assessment of learners' language and cognitive skill levels
Systems that detect and adapt to learners' cognitive or emotional states
Tools for learners with special needs
Use of corpora in educational tools
Data mining of learner and other corpora for tool building
Annotation standards and schemas / annotator agreement
Tools and applications for classroom teachers and/or test developers
NLP tools for second and foreign language learners
Semantic-based access to instructional materials to identify appropriate texts
Tools that automatically generate test questions
Processing of and access to lecture materials across topics and genres
Adaptation of instructional text to individual learners’ grade levels
Tools for text-based curriculum development
E-learning tools for personalized course content
Language-based educational games
Issues concerning the evaluation of NLP-based educational tools
Descriptions of implemented systems
Descriptions and proposals for shared tasks