Each paper was reviewed by three members of the Program Committee who were believed to be most appropriate for each paper. ivĥ This year we received a record 46 submissions, and accepted 8 papers as oral presentations and 20 as poster presentation and/or demos, for an overall acceptance rate of 61%. In this workshop, we present papers from the following subfields: tools for automated scoring of text and speech, automated test-item generation, curriculum development, collaborative problem solving, content evaluation in text, dialogue and intelligent tutoring, evaluation of genres beyond essays, feedback studies, and grammatical error detection. Steady growth in the development of NLP-based applications for education has prompted an increased number of workshops, typically focusing on one specific subfield. As a community, we continue to improve existing capabilities, and to identify and generate innovative ways to use NLP in applications for writing, reading, speaking, critical thinking, curriculum development, and assessment. We are pleased to announce a unique shared task at BEA this year: Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing. In 2014 alone, there were four shared tasks for NLP and Education-related areas. There have been four shared tasks on grammatical error correction with the last two held at CoNLL (20). Another breakthrough for educational applications within the CL community is the presence of a number of shared-task competitions over the last three years. The Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), now in its seventh year, promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes.
is another venue that discusses NLP research in education. MOOCs are now beginning to incorporate AWE systems to manage the thousands of constructed-response assignments collected during a single MOOC course. The motivation driving these competitions was to engage the larger scientific community in this enterprise.
First, the Hewlett Foundation reached out to public and private sectors and sponsored two competitions: one for automated essay scoring, and another for scoring of short answer, subject-matter-based response items. The use of NLP in educational applications has gained visibility outside of the NLP community. The current educational and assessment landscape, especially in the United States, continues to foster a strong interest and high demand that pushes the state-of-the-art in AWE capabilities to expand the analysis of written responses to writing genres other than those traditionally found in standardized assessments, especially writing tasks requiring use of sources and argumentative discourse. We are also seeing explosive growth of mobile applications for game-based applications for instruction and assessment. There has been a renewed interest in spoken dialog and multi-modal systems for instruction and assessment as well as feedback. We also see widely-used commercial applications for plagiarism detection and peer review. In the writing and speech domains, automated writing evaluation (AWE) and speech assessment applications, respectively, are commercially deployed in high-stakes assessment and instructional settings, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). NLP capabilities now support an array of learning domains, including writing, speaking, reading, and mathematics. The research presented at the workshop illustrates advances in the technology, and the maturity of the NLP/education field that are responses to those challenges with capabilities that support instructor practices and learner needs. The consistent interest and growth of the workshop has clear ties to challenges in education, especially with regard to supporting literacy. Since starting in 1997, the BEA workshop, now one of the largest workshops at NAACL/ACL, has become one of the leading venues for publishing innovative work that uses NLP to develop educational applications. Eighth Street Stroudsburg, PA USA Tel: Fax: ISBN iiiĤ Introduction We are excited to be holding the 11th edition of the BEA workshop. 3 c 2016 The Association for Computational Linguistics Order copies of this and other ACL proceedings from: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 209 N.
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