Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022)

Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor 2022-07 Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington text conference publication bea-2022-innovative https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.0/ Using Item Response Theory to Measure Gender and Racial Bias of a BERT-based Automated English Speech Assessment System Alexander Kwako author Yixin Wan author Jieyu Zhao author Kai-Wei Chang author Li Cai author Mark Hansen author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication kwako-etal-2022-using 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.1/ 2022-07 1 7 Automatic scoring of short answers using justification cues estimated by BERT Shunya Takano author Osamu Ichikawa author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication takano-ichikawa-2022-automatic 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.2/ 2022-07 8 13 Mitigating Learnerese Effects for CEFR Classification Rricha Jalota author Peter Bourgonje author Jan Van Sas author Huiyan Huang author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication jalota-etal-2022-mitigating 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.3/ 2022-07 14 21 Automatically Detecting Reduced-formed English Pronunciations by Using Deep Learning Lei Chen author Chenglin Jiang author Yiwei Gu author Yang Liu author Jiahong Yuan author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication chen-etal-2022-automatically 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.4/ 2022-07 22 26 A Baseline Readability Model for Cebuano Joseph Marvin Imperial author Lloyd Lois Antonie Reyes author Michael Antonio Ibanez author Ranz Sapinit author Mohammed Hussien author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication imperial-etal-2022-baseline 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.5/ 2022-07 27 32 Generation of Synthetic Error Data of Verb Order Errors for Swedish Judit Casademont Moner author Elena Volodina author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication casademont-moner-volodina-2022-generation 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.6/ 2022-07 33 38 A Dependency Treebank of Spoken Second Language English Kristopher Kyle author Masaki Eguchi author Aaron Miller author Theodore Sither author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication kyle-etal-2022-dependency 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.7/ 2022-07 39 45 Starting from “Zero”: An Incremental Zero-shot Learning Approach for Assessing Peer Feedback Comments Qinjin Jia author Yupeng Cao author Edward Gehringer author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication jia-etal-2022-starting 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.8/ 2022-07 46 50 On Assessing and Developing Spoken ‘Grammatical Error Correction’ Systems Yiting Lu author Stefano Bannò author Mark Gales author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication lu-etal-2022-assessing 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.9/ 2022-07 51 60 Automatic True/False Question Generation for Educational Purpose Bowei Zou author Pengfei Li author Liangming Pan author Ai Ti Aw author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication zou-etal-2022-automatic 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.10/ 2022-07 61 70 Fine-tuning Transformers with Additional Context to Classify Discursive Moves in Mathematics Classrooms Abhijit Suresh author Jennifer Jacobs author Margaret Perkoff author James H Martin author Tamara Sumner author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication suresh-etal-2022-fine 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.11/ 2022-07 71 81 Cross-corpora experiments of automatic proficiency assessment and error detection for spoken English Stefano Bannò author Marco Matassoni author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication banno-matassoni-2022-cross 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.12/ 2022-07 82 91 Activity focused Speech Recognition of Preschool Children in Early Childhood Classrooms Satwik Dutta author Dwight Irvin author Jay Buzhardt author John H.L. Hansen author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication dutta-etal-2022-activity 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.13/ 2022-07 92 100 Structural information in mathematical formulas for exercise difficulty prediction: a comparison of NLP representations Ekaterina Loginova author Dries Benoit author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication loginova-benoit-2022-structural 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.14/ 2022-07 101 106 The Specificity and Helpfulness of Peer-to-Peer Feedback in Higher Education Roman Rietsche author Andrew Caines author Cornelius Schramm author Dominik Pfütze author Paula Buttery author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication rietsche-etal-2022-specificity 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.15/ 2022-07 107 117 Similarity-Based Content Scoring - How to Make S-BERT Keep Up With BERT Marie Bexte author Andrea Horbach author Torsten Zesch author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication bexte-etal-2022-similarity 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.16/ 2022-07 118 123 Don’t Drop the Topic - The Role of the Prompt in Argument Identification in Student Writing Yuning Ding author Marie Bexte author Andrea Horbach author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication ding-etal-2022-dont 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.17/ 2022-07 124 133 ALEN App: Argumentative Writing Support To Foster English Language Learning Thiemo Wambsganss author Andrew Caines author Paula Buttery author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication wambsganss-etal-2022-alen 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.18/ 2022-07 134 140 Assessing sentence readability for German language learners with broad linguistic modeling or readability formulas: When do linguistic insights make a difference? Zarah Weiss author Detmar Meurers author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication weiss-meurers-2022-assessing 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.19/ 2022-07 141 153 Parametrizable exercise generation from authentic texts: Effectively targeting the language means on the curriculum Tanja Heck author Detmar Meurers author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication heck-meurers-2022-parametrizable 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.20/ 2022-07 154 166 Selecting Context Clozes for Lightweight Reading Compliance Greg Keim author Michael Littman author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication keim-littman-2022-selecting 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.21/ 2022-07 167 172 ‘Meet me at the ribary’ – Acceptability of spelling variants in free-text answers to listening comprehension prompts Ronja Laarmann-Quante author Leska Schwarz author Andrea Horbach author Torsten Zesch author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication laarmann-quante-etal-2022-meet 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.22/ 2022-07 173 182 Educational Tools for Mapuzugun Cristian Ahumada author Claudio Gutierrez author Antonios Anastasopoulos author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor 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author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication fiacco-etal-2022-toward 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.25 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.25/ 2022-07 204 215 Educational Multi-Question Generation for Reading Comprehension Manav Rathod author Tony Tu author Katherine Stasaski author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication rathod-etal-2022-educational 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.26/ 2022-07 216 223 Computationally Identifying Funneling and Focusing Questions in Classroom Discourse Sterling Alic author Dorottya Demszky author Zid Mancenido author Jing Liu author Heather Hill author Dan Jurafsky author 2022-07 text Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) Ekaterina Kochmar editor Jill Burstein editor Andrea Horbach editor Ronja Laarmann-Quante editor Nitin Madnani editor Anaïs Tack editor Victoria Yaneva editor Zheng Yuan editor Torsten Zesch editor Association for Computational Linguistics Seattle, Washington conference publication alic-etal-2022-computationally 10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.27/ 2022-07 224 233 Towards an open-domain chatbot for language practice Gladys Tyen author Mark Brenchley author Andrew Caines author Paula 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