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

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor 2015-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado text conference publication ws-2015-innovative https://aclanthology.org/W15-0600/ Candidate evaluation strategies for improved difficulty prediction of language tests Lisa Beinborn author Torsten Zesch author Iryna Gurevych author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication beinborn-etal-2015-candidate 10.3115/v1/W15-0601 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0601/ 2015-06 1 11 Feature selection for automated speech scoring Anastassia Loukina author Klaus Zechner author Lei Chen author Michael Heilman author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication loukina-etal-2015-feature 10.3115/v1/W15-0602 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0602/ 2015-06 12 19 Incorporating Coherence of Topics as a Criterion in Automatic Response-to-Text Assessment of the Organization of Writing Zahra Rahimi author Diane Litman author Elaine Wang author Richard Correnti author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication rahimi-etal-2015-incorporating 10.3115/v1/W15-0603 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0603/ 2015-06 20 30 Automatic morphological analysis of learner Hungarian Scott Ledbetter author Markus Dickinson author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the 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of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication malmasi-cahill-2015-measuring 10.3115/v1/W15-0606 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0606/ 2015-06 49 55 Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing: AESW Shared Task Proposal Vidas Daudaravičius author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication daudaravicius-2015-automated 10.3115/v1/W15-0607 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0607/ 2015-06 56 63 Scoring Persuasive Essays Using Opinions and their Targets Noura Farra author Swapna Somasundaran author Jill Burstein author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication farra-etal-2015-scoring 10.3115/v1/W15-0608 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0608/ 2015-06 64 74 Towards Automatic Description of Knowledge Components Cyril Goutte author Guillaume Durand author Serge Léger author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication goutte-etal-2015-towards 10.3115/v1/W15-0609 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0609/ 2015-06 75 80 The Impact of Training Data on Automated Short Answer Scoring Performance Michael Heilman author Nitin Madnani author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication heilman-madnani-2015-impact 10.3115/v1/W15-0610 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0610/ 2015-06 81 85 Interpreting Questions with a Log-Linear Ranking Model in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System Evan Jaffe author Michael White author William Schuler author Eric Fosler-Lussier author Alex Rosenfeld author Douglas Danforth author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication jaffe-etal-2015-interpreting 10.3115/v1/W15-0611 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0611/ 2015-06 86 96 Identifying Patterns For Short Answer Scoring Using Graph-based Lexico-Semantic Text Matching Lakshmi Ramachandran author Jian Cheng author Peter Foltz author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication ramachandran-etal-2015-identifying 10.3115/v1/W15-0612 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0612/ 2015-06 97 106 Lark Trills for Language Drills: Text-to-speech technology for language learners Elena Volodina author Dijana Pijetlovic author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication volodina-pijetlovic-2015-lark 10.3115/v1/W15-0613 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0613/ 2015-06 107 117 The Jinan Chinese Learner Corpus Maolin Wang author Shervin Malmasi author Mingxuan Huang author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication wang-etal-2015-jinan 10.3115/v1/W15-0614 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0614/ 2015-06 118 123 Reducing Annotation Efforts in Supervised Short Answer Scoring Torsten Zesch author Michael Heilman author Aoife Cahill author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication zesch-etal-2015-reducing 10.3115/v1/W15-0615 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0615/ 2015-06 124 132 Annotation and Classification of Argumentative Writing Revisions Fan Zhang author Diane Litman author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication zhang-litman-2015-annotation 10.3115/v1/W15-0616 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0616/ 2015-06 133 143 Embarrassed or Awkward? Ranking Emotion Synonyms for ESL Learners’ Appropriate Wording Wei-Fan Chen author Mei-Hua Chen author Lun-Wei Ku author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication chen-etal-2015-embarrassed 10.3115/v1/W15-0617 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0617/ 2015-06 144 153 RevUP: Automatic Gap-Fill Question Generation from Educational Texts Girish Kumar author Rafael Banchs author Luis Fernando D’Haro author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication kumar-etal-2015-revup 10.3115/v1/W15-0618 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0618/ 2015-06 154 161 Preliminary Experiments on Crowdsourced Evaluation of Feedback Granularity Nitin Madnani author Martin Chodorow author Aoife Cahill author Melissa Lopez author Yoko Futagi author Yigal Attali author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication madnani-etal-2015-preliminary 10.3115/v1/W15-0619 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0619/ 2015-06 162 171 Oracle and Human Baselines for Native Language Identification Shervin Malmasi author Joel Tetreault author Mark Dras author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication malmasi-etal-2015-oracle 10.3115/v1/W15-0620 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0620/ 2015-06 172 178 Using PEGWriting¯ to Support the Writing Motivation and Writing Quality of Eighth-Grade Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study Joshua Wilson author Trish Martin author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication wilson-martin-2015-using 10.3115/v1/W15-0621 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0621/ 2015-06 179 189 Towards Creating Pedagogic Views from Encyclopedic Resources Ditty Mathew author Dhivya Eswaran author Sutanu Chakraborti author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication mathew-etal-2015-towards 10.3115/v1/W15-0622 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0622/ 2015-06 190 195 Judging the Quality of Automatically Generated Gap-fill Question using Active Learning Nobal Bikram Niraula author Vasile Rus author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication niraula-rus-2015-judging 10.3115/v1/W15-0623 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0623/ 2015-06 196 206 Generating Reference Texts for Short Answer Scoring Using Graph-based Summarization Lakshmi Ramachandran author Peter Foltz author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication ramachandran-foltz-2015-generating 10.3115/v1/W15-0624 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0624/ 2015-06 207 212 Evaluating the performance of Automated Text Scoring systems Helen Yannakoudakis author Ronan Cummins author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication yannakoudakis-cummins-2015-evaluating 10.3115/v1/W15-0625 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0625/ 2015-06 213 223 Task-Independent Features for Automated Essay Grading Torsten Zesch author Michael Wojatzki author Dirk Scholten-Akoun author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication zesch-etal-2015-task 10.3115/v1/W15-0626 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0626/ 2015-06 224 232 Using Learner Data to Improve Error Correction in Adjective–Noun Combinations Ekaterina Kochmar author Ted Briscoe author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication kochmar-briscoe-2015-using 10.3115/v1/W15-0627 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0627/ 2015-06 233 242 Using NLP to Support Scalable Assessment of Short Free Text Responses Alistair Willis author 2015-06 text Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications Joel Tetreault editor Jill Burstein editor Claudia Leacock editor Association for Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado conference publication willis-2015-using 10.3115/v1/W15-0628 https://aclanthology.org/W15-0628/ 2015-06 243 253 Automatically Scoring Freshman Writing: A Preliminary Investigation Courtney Napoles author Chris Callison-Burch author 2015-06 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