W13: Building Educational Applications (BEA)

Jill Burstein, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildikó Pilán, Helen Yannakoudakis, Torsten Zesch

Live Session: Jul 10 (13:00-20:30 GMT)

Time (PDT)	Event	Speakers
10 Jul, 6:00 AM-6:10 AM	Opening Remarks	BEA Organizers
10 Jul, 6:10 AM-6:30 AM	Linguistic Features for Readability Assessment	Tovly Deutsch (Masoud Jasbi and Stuart Shieber)
10 Jul, 6:30 AM-6:50 AM	Using PRMSE to evaluate automated scoring systems in the presence of label noise	Anastassia Loukina (Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill, Lili Yao, Matthew S. Johnson, Brian Riordan, Daniel F. McCaffrey)
10 Jul, 6:50 AM-7:10 AM	Multiple Instance Learning for Content Feedback Localization without Annotation	Scott Hellman (William Murray, Adam Wiemerslage, Mark Rosenstein, Peter Foltz, Lee Becker, Marcia Derr)
10 Jul, 7:10 AM-7:30 AM	Complementary Systems for Off-topic Spoken Response Detection	Vatsal Raina (Mark Gales, Kate Knill)
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10 Jul, 8:00 AM-8:10 AM	CIMA: A Large Open Access Dialogue Dataset for Tutoring	Katherine Stasaski (Kimberly Kao, Marti A. Hearst)
10 Jul, 8:10 AM-8:20 AM	Becoming Linguistically Mature: Modeling English and German Children’s Writing Development Across School Grades	Elma Kerz (Yu Qiao, Daniel Wiechmann and Marcus Ströbel)
10 Jul, 8:20 AM-8:30 AM	Annotation and Classification of Evidence and Reasoning Revisions in Argumentative Writing	Tazin Afrin (Elaine Lin Wang, Diane Litman, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Richard Correnti)
10 Jul, 8:30 AM-8:40 AM	Can Neural Networks Automatically Score Essay Traits?	Sandeep Mathias (Pushpak Bhattacharyya)
10 Jul, 8:40 AM-8:50 AM	Tracking the Evolution of Written Language Competence in L2 Spanish Learners	Alessio Miaschi (Sam Davidson, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Kenji Sagae, Claudia Helena Sanchez-Gutierrez, Giulia Venturi)
10 Jul, 8:50 AM-9:00 AM	Distractor Analysis and Selection for Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Second-Language Learners	Lingyu Gao (Kevin Gimpel, Arnar Jensson)
10 Jul, 9:00 AM-9:10 AM	Assisting Undergraduate Students in Writing Spanish Methodology Sections	Samuel González-López (Steven Bethard and Aurelio Lopez-Lopez)
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10 Jul, 10:10 AM-10:30 AM	Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study	Zara Maxwelll-Smith (Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley and Hanna Suominen)
10 Jul, 10:30 AM-10:50 AM	An Empirical Investigation of Neural Methods for Content Scoring of Science Explanations	Brian Riordan (Sarah Bichler, Allison Bradford, Jennifer King Chen, Korah Wiley, Libby Gerard and Marcia C. Linn)
10 Jul, 10:50 AM-11:10 AM	An Exploratory Study of Argumentative Writing by Young Students: A transformer-based Approach	Debanjan Ghosh (Beata Beigman Klebanov and Yi Song)
10 Jul, 11:10 AM-11:30 AM	Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring?	Elijah Mayfield (Alan W Black)
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10 Jul, 12:00 PM-12:10 PM	GECToR – Grammatical Error Correction: Tag, Not Rewrite	Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Vitaliy Atrasevych, Artem Chernodub and Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi)
10 Jul, 12:10 PM-12:20 PM	Interpreting Neural CWI Classifiers’ Weights as Vocabulary Size	Yo Ehara
10 Jul, 12:20 PM-12:30 PM	Automated Scoring of Clinical Expressive Language Evaluation Tasks	Yiyi Wang (Emily Prud'hommeaux, Meysam Asgari, Jill Dolata)
10 Jul, 12:30 PM-12:40 PM	Context-based Automated Scoring of Complex Mathematical Responses	Aoife Cahill, James H Fife, Brian Riordan, Avijit Vajpayee and Dmytro Galochkin.
10 Jul, 12:40 PM-12:50 PM	Predicting the Difficulty and Response Time of Multiple Choice Questions Using Transfer Learning	Kang Xue (Victoria Yaneva, Christopher Runyon and Peter Baldwin)
10 Jul, 12:50 PM-1:00 PM	A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data Generation Methods for Grammatical Error Correction	Max White (Alla Rozovskaya)
10 Jul, 1:00 PM-1:20 PM	Modeling Individual Differences in Second-Language Reading Skill using Language Experience, Executive Attention, and Cross-Linguistic Interactions	Brianna L. Yamasaki
10 Jul, 1:20 PM-1:30 PM	Closing Remarks	BEA Organizers