DEADLINE EXTENSION: BEA 2024 Final Call for Papers - Corpora

3 Mar 2024


      Deadline EXTENDED: Saturday, March 16, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12
The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA 2024)
Location: Mexico City (co-located with NAACL 2024)
Date: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)
Website: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
*Submission Deadline: *Saturday, March 16*, 2024, 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 390 members.
The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya
https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/ (Queens College, CUNY), an
invited paper presentation by a member of one of the educational societies
from the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (
IAALDE https://alliancelss.com/), oral presentation sessions, and a large
poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. This
year, the workshop is also hosting two shared tasks: on Automated
Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time
https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2024 and on Multilingual Lexical
Simplification https://sites.google.com/view/mlsp-sharedtask-2024. We
expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and
opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages.
The workshop will solicit long, short and demo papers for either oral or
poster presentation.
We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not
limited to:
- use of LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts
   - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
   - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across
   multiple genres);
   - game-based instruction and assessment;
   - educational data mining;
   - intelligent tutoring;
   - collaborative learning environments;
   - peer review;
   - grammatical error detection and correction;
   - learner cognition;
   - spoken dialog;
   - multimodal applications;
   - annotation standards and schemas;
   - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
   developers; and
   - use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED TALKS
The workshop will feature a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya
https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/ (Queens College, CUNY) and
an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE
https://alliancelss.com/ societies.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
- Submission Deadline: *Saturday, March 16*, 2024
   - Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, April 14, 2024
   - Camera-ready Papers Due: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
   - Workshop: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)
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. We generally follow ACL submission
guidelines https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp and will require that all
submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which
does not count toward the page limit.
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://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024*
https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024/
DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy
https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp. 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
- Ekaterina Kochmar https://ekochmar.github.io/about/, MBZUAI
   - Marie Bexte
   <
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalpa...,
FernUniversität in Hagen
   - Jill Burstein https://sites.google.com/site/jbursteinets/, Duolingo
   - Andrea Horbach
   <
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalpa...,
FernUniversität in Hagen
   - Ronja Laarmann-Quante
   https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/ronja-laarmann-quante, Ruhr University
   Bochum
   - Anaïs Tack https://anaistack.github.io/, KU Leuven
   - Yaneva http://www.victoriayaneva.info/, National Board of
   Medical Examiners
   - Zheng Yuan https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~zy249/, King’s College London
Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tazin Afrin (Educational Testing Service); Erfan Al-Hossami (UNC
Charlotte); Desislava Aleksandrova (CBC/Radio-Canada); Giora Alexandron
(Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg);
Jatin Ambasana (Unitedworld School of Computational Intelligence);
Alejandro Andrade (Pearson); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Berk Atil (Penn State University); Shiva Baghel
(Data Scientist); Rabin Banjade (University of Memphis); Michael Gringo
Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Lisa Beinborn
(VU Amsterdam); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Jeanette
Bewersdorff (FernUniversität in Hagen); Abhidip Bhattacharyya (CICS UMass);
Serge Bibauw (UCLouvain); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Jie Cao (University of
Colorado Boulder); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (University POLITEHNICA of
Bucharest); Jeevan Chapagain (University of Memphis); Mei-Hua Chen
(Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark
Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University);
Sam Davidson (UC Davis); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Kordula
De Kuthy (University of Tübingen); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University); Yo
Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Yang Deng (Singapore); Chris Develder
(Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Yuning Ding (FernUniversität in Hagen);
Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagogica
Nacional); Mariano Felice (British Council); Nigel Fernandez (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service);
Jennifer Frey (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research); Kotaro
Funakoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Thomas Gaillat (Université
Rennes 2); Diana Galvan-Sosa (Tohoku University); Ashwinkumar Ganesan
(UMBC, Amazon); Rujun Gao (Texas A&M University); Ritik Garg (IIITD);
Christian Gold (FernUniversität in Hagen); Sebastian Gombert (DIPF |
Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Cyril Goutte
(National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann
Institute of Science); Handoko Handoko (Universitas Andalas); Ching Nam
Hang (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong);
Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes
University - LS2N); Heiko Holz (Ludwigsburg University of Education);
Chieh-Yang Huang (Penn State University); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State
University); Anna Huelsing (Universität Hildesheim); Joseph Marvin Imperial
(University of Bath, National University); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University
of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (North Carolina State University); Helen Jin
(University of Pennsylvania); Ioana Jivet (Goethe University Frankfurt);
Léane Jourdan (University of Nantes); Anisia Katinskaia (University of
Helsinki); Elma Kerz (RWTH Aachen Univeristy); Fazel Keshtkar (St. John's
University, NY); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Roland Kuhn
(National Research Council of Canada (NRC)); Alexander Kwako (University of
California, Los Angeles); Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon); Antonio
Laverghetta Jr. (University of South Florida); Seolhwa Lee (Technical
University of Darmstadt); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of
Pittsburgh); Yudong Liu (Western Washington University); Zhexiong Liu
(University of Pittsburgh); Julian Lohmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität
zu Kiel); Anastassia Loukina (Grammarly Inc.); Jiaying Lu (Emory
University); Crisron Rudolf Lucas (UCD); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Nitin
Madnani (ETS); Arianna Masciolini (Språkbanken Text, Department of Swedish,
Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg); Sandeep
Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Hunter McNichols (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Amit Kumar Mishra (Amity University Madhya
Pradesh); Masato Mita (CyberAgent); Phoebe Mulcaire (Duolingo); Laura Musto
(Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República);
Farah Nadeem (The World Bank); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Diane Napolitano
(Associated Press); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of
Pittsburgh); Tanya Nazaretsky (EPFL); Kamel Nebhi (Education First); Hwee
Tou Ng (National University of Singapore); Huy Nguyen (Amazon);
Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); Christina Niklaus
(University of St.Gallen); S Jaya Nirmala (NIT Trichy India); Eda Okur
(Intel Labs); Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly); Amin Omidvar (York
University); Ulrike Pado (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart); Chanjun Park
(Upstage); Udita Patel (Amazon); Long Qin (Alibaba Cloud); Mengyang Qiu
(University at Buffalo); Martí Quixal (University of Tübingen); Manav
Rathod (Glean); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Robert Reynolds (Brigham
Young University); Frankie Robertson (University of Jyväskylä); Aiala Rosá
(Universidad de la República); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New
York); Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversität in Hagen); Omer Salem; Nicy
Scaria (Indian Institute of Science); Nils-Jonathan Schaller
(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Gyu-Ho Shin (University of
Illinois Chicago); Mayank Soni (ADAPT Center, Trinity College Dublin);
Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud
University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh
(Reddit Inc.); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University); Zhongwei
Teng (Duolingo); Xiaoyi Tian (University of Florida); Sowmya Vajjala
(National Research Council, Canada); Giulia Venturi (Institute for
Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"); Anthony Verardi (Duolingo English
Test); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Taro Watanabe
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Michael White (The Ohio State
University); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Man Fai Wong (City
University of Hong Kong); Simon Woodhead (Eedi); Changrong Xiao (Tsinghua
University); Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki); Su-Youn Yoon
(EduLab); Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University); Fabian Zehner (DIPF |
Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Torsten Zesch
(FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Emory University); Yiyun Zhou
(NBME); Jessica Zipf (University of Konstanz); Michael Zock (CNRS, (LIF)
University of Aix-Marseille); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research
(I2R), A*STAR, Singapore).