MOOC 2014 - Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses

EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in
Massively Open Online Courses
See Full CFP at: http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/MOOC/call.html
Contact: emnlpmooc-AT-gmail.com
Program Co-Chairs: Carolyn Penstein Rose and George Siemens
Research on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is an emerging area for
real world impact of technology for analysis of social media at a large
scale. The goal of this workshop is to explore what the language
technologies community has to offer this endeavor. At this one day
workshop, organized around a shared task related to analysis of large
scale social interaction in MOOCs, we will evaluate the competing images
of the inner workings of large scale learning communities provided by
alternative computational approaches. The workshop will address leading
research through keynote talks, presentations of research papers, posters,
and demos, and especially a shared task.
The shared task will involve analysis of data extracted from 6 Coursera
MOOCs. Data from one MOOC with approximately 30K students will be
distributed as training data and will consist of discussion forum data (in
SQL) and clickstream data (in JSON format). Due to Institutional Review
Board restrictions, we are not able to distribute the data from the 5 test
MOOCs. Instead, we will run the predictive models participants provide on
the 5 test MOOCs and report the results at the workshop. The prediction
task will be Predicting Attrition Along the Way. Based on behavioral
data from a week┬ worth of activity in a MOOC for a student, predict
whether the student will cease to actively participate after that week.
Further details are available at the workshop website.
Important Dates:
1. April 23, 2014: Call for Participation disseminated.
2. May 31, 2014: Deadline for shared task participants to indicate
interest in participating in the shared task.
See specific instructions under Shared Task for formally declaring
interest in participating.
3. June 5, 2014: Organizers send access instructions for training
data to participants. Participants who declare
interest before the deadline will receive the data substantially before
that.
4. Submission deadline for Research papers, Posters, and Demos: July
10, 2014 (submitted through START:
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/mooc14/)
5. Notification of Acceptance of Research papers, Posters, and Demos:
August 15, 2014
6. Submission deadline for shared task: September 1, 2014 (submitted
through START:
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/mooc14/)
7. Camera ready papers for proceedings: September 10, 2014 (submitted
through START:
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/mooc14/)
8. October 25 , 2014: Workshop
Program Committee
Hua Ai, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ryan Baker, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University
Emma Brunskill, Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Butler, University of Maryland
Hal Daume III, University of Maryland
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jana Diesner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University
Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University
Lillian Lee, Cornell University
Alice Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina
Hinrich Schuetze, University of Munich
Simon Buckingham Shum, The Open University
Yla Tausczik, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan
Joel Tetreault, Nuance
Chong Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
Alyssa Wise, Simon Fraser University
Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University
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Carolyn Penstein Rose
Associate Professor
Language Technologies Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
cprose-AT-cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose
Gates-Hillman Center 5415
412-268-7130
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Mailing address:
Carolyn Penstein Rose
Carnegie Mellon University - LTI
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213