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: Sunday, March 10, 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) in 2017, which currently has over 370 members.



The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya (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), 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 and on Multilingual Lexical Simplification. 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 (Queens College, CUNY) and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE societies.


IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).

Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 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 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

DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY

We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. 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, MBZUAI

Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen

Jill Burstein, Duolingo

Andrea Horbach, FernUniversität in Hagen

Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum

Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven

Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners

Zheng Yuan, King’s College London

Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop@gmail.com



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
David Alfter; Tazin Afrin; Erfan Al-Hossami; Giora Alexandron; Desislava Aleksandrova; Bashar Alhafni; Alejandro Andrade; Nischal Ashok Kumar; Berk Atil; Shiva Baghel; Rabin Banjade; Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona; Lee Becker; Lisa Beinborn; Luca Benedetto; Marie Bexte; Serge Bibauw; Ted Briscoe; Jie Cao; Dumitru-Clementin Cercel; Mei-Hua Chen; Hyundong Cho; Mark Core; Orphee De Clercq; Kordula De Kuthy; Jasper Degraeuwe; Yo Ehara; Carrie Demmans Epp; Yang Deng; Chris Develder; Ann Devitt; Barbara Di Eugenio; Elisa Di Nuovo; Yuning Ding; Rahul Divekar; A. Seza Dogruoz; George Dueñas; Mariano Felice; Nigel Fernandez; Michael Flor; Jennifer Frey; Diana Galvan-Sosa; Ashwinkumar Ganesan; Rujun Gao; Sebastian Gombert; Cyril Goutte; Abigail Gurin Schleifer; Samar Haider; Handoko Handoko; Ching Nam Hang; Jiangang Hao; Nicolas Hernandez; Heiko Holz; Chieh-Yang Huang; Chung- Chi Huang; Yi-Ting Huang; Joseph Marvin Imperial; Radu Tudor Ionescu; Qinjin Jia; Helen Jin; Richard Johansson; Masahiro Kaneko; Elma Kerz; Fazel Keshtkar; Alfiya Khabibullina; Mamoru Komachi; Roland Kuhn; Alexander Kwako; Kristopher Kyle; Antonio Laverghetta Jr.; Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan; Bruce W. Lee; Seolhwa Lee; Xu Li; John Licato; Yudong Liu; Zhexiong Liu; Anastassia Loukina; Jakub Macina; Nitin Madnani; Arianna Masciolini; Sandeep Mathias; Detmar Meurers; Amit Kumar Mishra; Masato Mita; Farah Nadeem; Ryo Nagata; Sungjin Nam; Diane Napolitano; Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan; Tanya Nazaretsky; Kamel Nebhi; Seyed Parsa Neshaei; Hwee Tou Ng; Gebregziabihier Nigusie; Christina Niklaus; S Jaya Nirmala; Huy Nguyen; Eda Okur; Kostiantyn Omelianchuk; Amin Omidvar; Ulrike Pado; Chanjun Park; E. Margaret Perkoff; Jakob Prange; Long Qin; Mengyang Qiu; Martí Quixal; Manav Rathod; Hanumant Redkar; Robert Reynolds; Frankie Robertson; Alla Rozovskaya; Nicy Scaria; Alexander Scarlatos; Gyu-Ho Shin; Mayank Soni; Katherine Stasaski; Helmer Strik; Hakyung Sung; Hanna Suominen; Abhijit Suresh; Jan Švec; Chee Wei Tan; Zhongwei Teng; Rushil Thareja; Xiaoyi Tian; Sowmya Vajjala; Piper Vasicek; Giulia Venturi; Anthony Verardi; Carl Vogel; Elena Volodina; Taro Watanabe; Michael White; Alistair Willis; Simon Woodhead; Marcos Zampieri; Fabian Zehner; Torsten Zesch; Jing Zhang; Yiyun Zhou; Jessica Zipf; Bowei Zou