Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop May 31, 2003 Edmonton, Canada http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL Overview There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for both large-scale assessment and classroom instruction. This has occurred for two primary reasons. First, there has been a significant increase in the availability of computers in schools, from elementary school to the university. Second, there has been notable development in computer-based educational applications that incorporate advanced methods in NLP that can be used to evaluate students' work. Educational applications have been developed across a variety of subject domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring. To date, these two research areas have remained autonomous. We hope that this workshop will facilitate communication between researchers who work on all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Since most of this work in NLP-based educational applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any work of this type that incorporates speech processing and other input/output modalities. We wish to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an educational application. Call for Papers We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to: * Speech-based tools for educational technology * Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for domain-specific responses * Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing * Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based analyses * Dialogue systems in education * understanding student input * generating the tutors' feedback * evaluation * Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education * Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building * Content-based scoring Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Mar 3 Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 24 Camera ready papers due: Apr 7 Workshop date: May 31 Organizers Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service (jburstein@ets.org) Claudia Leacock, Educational Testing Service (cleacock@ets.org) Program Committee: Gregory Aist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York Ron Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago John Dowding, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University Art Graesser, University of Memphis Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California Thomas Morton, University of Pennsylvania Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh Susanne Wolff, Princeton University Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service Format for Submission Information about submissions can be found at the URL below. Please follow the instructions for full papers and use only Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or MS-Word documents. Since the review process will be blind, please do not include any author information on the actual paper. Please include an additional title page with the following information: Paper title, names and contact information for all authors, and the paper's abstract. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html Please e-mail your final .pdf or MS-Word submission to jburstein@ets.org or cleacock@ets.org no later than March 3, 2003. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions regarding the workshop.