NLPTEA 2018 - 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA 2018)

The NLPTEA is the annual workshop for the Special Interest Group on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (SIGCALL) of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP). The purpose of NLPTEA 2018 is to identify challenging problems facing the development of computer-assisted techniques for Asian language learning, and to shape future research directions through the publication of applied and theoretical research findings. To better meet this end, this year, we will have a shared task on Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis.
We solicit submissions of research studies on all topics related to NLP techniques for educational applications in terms of both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. We will give special attention to research that has taken Asian language learning into consideration. Besides, one of our key goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from the computational linguistics and computer education areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Annotation schema and error tagging
Assessment of learners’ language proficiency
Automated essay scoring
Collaborative learning environments
Content analysis for assessment
Discourse and stylistic analysis
Educational data mining
E-learning tools for personalized course content
Grammatical error detection and correction
Intelligent tutoring systems
Learner corpus development and evaluation
Native language identification
NLP tools for language learning
Plagiarism detection
Second language acquisition
Sentence judgment system
Spelling error checking
Structural analysis of argumentation
Tools and applications for teachers, courseware, tests, and students