Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor 2014-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland text conference publication ws-2014-innovative https://aclanthology.org/W14-1800/ Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (‘Use These Words to Write a Sentence Based on this Picture’) Swapna Somasundaran author Martin Chodorow author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication somasundaran-chodorow-2014-automated 10.3115/v1/W14-1801 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1801/ 2014-06 1 11 Automatic Assessment of the Speech of Young English Learners Jian Cheng author Yuan Zhao D’Antilio author Xin Chen author Jared Bernstein author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication cheng-etal-2014-automatic 10.3115/v1/W14-1802 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1802/ 2014-06 12 21 Automatic detection of plagiarized spoken responses Keelan Evanini author Xinhao Wang author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication evanini-wang-2014-automatic 10.3115/v1/W14-1803 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1803/ 2014-06 22 27 Understanding MOOC Discussion Forums using Seeded LDA Arti Ramesh author Dan Goldwasser author Bert Huang author Hal Daumé author Lise Getoor author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication ramesh-etal-2014-understanding 10.3115/v1/W14-1804 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1804/ 2014-06 28 33 Translation Class Instruction as Collaboration in the Act of Translation Lars Ahrenberg author Ljuba Tarvi author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication ahrenberg-tarvi-2014-translation 10.3115/v1/W14-1805 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1805/ 2014-06 34 42 The pragmatics of margin comments: An empirical study Debora Field author Stephen Pulman author Denise Whitelock author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication field-etal-2014-pragmatics 10.3115/v1/W14-1806 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1806/ 2014-06 43 53 Surprisal as a Predictor of Essay Quality Gaurav Kharkwal author Smaranda Muresan author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication kharkwal-muresan-2014-surprisal 10.3115/v1/W14-1807 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1807/ 2014-06 54 60 Towards Domain-Independent Assessment of Elementary Students’ Science Competency using Soft Cardinality Samuel Leeman-Munk author Angela Shelton author Eric Wiebe author James Lester author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication leeman-munk-etal-2014-towards 10.3115/v1/W14-1808 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1808/ 2014-06 61 67 Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment Anastassia Loukina author Klaus Zechner author Lei Chen author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication loukina-etal-2014-automatic 10.3115/v1/W14-1809 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1809/ 2014-06 68 78 An Explicit Feedback System for Preposition Errors based on Wikipedia Revisions Nitin Madnani author Aoife Cahill author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication madnani-cahill-2014-explicit 10.3115/v1/W14-1810 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1810/ 2014-06 79 88 Syllable and language model based features for detecting non-scorable tests in spoken language proficiency assessment applications Angeliki Metallinou author Jian Cheng author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication metallinou-cheng-2014-syllable 10.3115/v1/W14-1811 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1811/ 2014-06 89 98 Improving Peer Feedback Prediction: The Sentence Level is Right Huy Nguyen author Diane Litman author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication nguyen-litman-2014-improving 10.3115/v1/W14-1812 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1812/ 2014-06 99 108 ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors C Anton Rytting author Paul Rodrigues author Tim Buckwalter author Valerie Novak author Aric Bills author Noah H Silbert author Mohini Madgavkar author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication rytting-etal-2014-arcade 10.3115/v1/W14-1813 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1813/ 2014-06 109 115 Similarity-Based Non-Scorable Response Detection for Automated Speech Scoring Su-Youn Yoon author Shasha Xie author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication yoon-xie-2014-similarity 10.3115/v1/W14-1814 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1814/ 2014-06 116 123 Natural Language Generation with Vocabulary Constraints Ben Swanson author Elif Yamangil author Eugene Charniak author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication swanson-etal-2014-natural 10.3115/v1/W14-1815 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1815/ 2014-06 124 133 Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language Klaus Zechner author Keelan Evanini author Su-Youn Yoon author Lawrence Davis author Xinhao Wang author Lei Chen author Chong Min Lee author Chee Wee Leong author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication zechner-etal-2014-automated 10.3115/v1/W14-1816 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1816/ 2014-06 134 142 Automatic Generation of Challenging Distractors Using Context-Sensitive Inference Rules Torsten Zesch author Oren Melamud author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication zesch-melamud-2014-automatic 10.3115/v1/W14-1817 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1817/ 2014-06 143 148 Sentence-level Rewriting Detection Fan Zhang author Diane Litman author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication zhang-litman-2014-sentence 10.3115/v1/W14-1818 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1818/ 2014-06 149 154 Exploiting Morphological, Grammatical, and Semantic Correlates for Improved Text Difficulty Assessment Elizabeth Salesky author Wade Shen author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication salesky-shen-2014-exploiting 10.3115/v1/W14-1819 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1819/ 2014-06 155 162 Assessing the Readability of Sentences: Which Corpora and Features? Felice Dell’Orletta author Martijn Wieling author Giulia Venturi author Andrea Cimino author Simonetta Montemagni author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication dellorletta-etal-2014-assessing 10.3115/v1/W14-1820 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1820/ 2014-06 163 173 Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability Ildikó Pilán author Elena Volodina author Richard Johansson author 2014-06 text Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Baltimore, Maryland conference publication pilan-etal-2014-rule 10.3115/v1/W14-1821 https://aclanthology.org/W14-1821/ 2014-06 174 184