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 JoelTetreault JillBurstein ClaudiaLeacock June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-18 book W14-18:2014 Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses ('Use These Words to Write a Sentence Based on this Picture') SwapnaSomasundaran MartinChodorow Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 1–11 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1801 inproceedings somasundaran-chodorow:2014:W14-18 Automatic Assessment of the Speech of Young English Learners JianCheng YuanZhao D'Antilio XinChen JaredBernstein Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 12–21 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1802 inproceedings cheng-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Automatic detection of plagiarized spoken responses KeelanEvanini XinhaoWang Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 22–27 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1803 inproceedings evanini-wang:2014:W14-18 Understanding MOOC Discussion Forums using Seeded LDA ArtiRamesh DanGoldwasser BertHuang HalDaume LiseGetoor Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 28–33 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1804 inproceedings ramesh-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Translation Class Instruction as Collaboration in the Act of Translation LarsAhrenberg LjubaTarvi Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 34–42 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1805 inproceedings ahrenberg-tarvi:2014:W14-18 The pragmatics of margin comments: An empirical study DeboraField StephenPulman DeniseWhitelock Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 43–53 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1806 inproceedings field-pulman-whitelock:2014:W14-18 Surprisal as a Predictor of Essay Quality GauravKharkwal SmarandaMuresan Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 54–60 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1807 inproceedings kharkwal-muresan:2014:W14-18 Towards Domain-Independent Assessment of Elementary Students’ Science Competency using Soft Cardinality SamuelLeeman-Munk AngelaShelton EricWiebe JamesLester Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 61–67 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1808 inproceedings leemanmunk-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment AnastassiaLoukina KlausZechner LeiChen Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 68–78 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1809 inproceedings loukina-zechner-chen:2014:W14-18 An Explicit Feedback System for Preposition Errors based on Wikipedia Revisions NitinMadnani AoifeCahill Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 79–88 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1810 inproceedings madnani-cahill:2014:W14-18 Syllable and language model based features for detecting non-scorable tests in spoken language proficiency assessment applications AngelikiMetallinou JianCheng Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 89–98 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1811 inproceedings metallinou-cheng:2014:W14-18 Improving Peer Feedback Prediction: The Sentence Level is Right HuyNguyen DianeLitman Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 99–108 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1812 inproceedings nguyen-litman:2014:W14-18 ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors C. AntonRytting PaulRodrigues TimBuckwalter ValerieNovak AricBills Noah H.Silbert MohiniMadgavkar Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 109–115 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1813 inproceedings rytting-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Similarity-Based Non-Scorable Response Detection for Automated Speech Scoring Su-YounYoon ShashaXie Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 116–123 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1814 inproceedings yoon-xie:2014:W14-18 Natural Language Generation with Vocabulary Constraints BenSwanson ElifYamangil EugeneCharniak Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 124–133 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1815 inproceedings swanson-yamangil-charniak:2014:W14-18 Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language KlausZechner KeelanEvanini Su-YounYoon LawrenceDavis XinhaoWang LeiChen Chong MinLee Chee WeeLeong Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 134–142 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1816 inproceedings zechner-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Automatic Generation of Challenging Distractors Using Context-Sensitive Inference Rules TorstenZesch OrenMelamud Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 143–148 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1817 inproceedings zesch-melamud:2014:W14-18 Sentence-level Rewriting Detection FanZhang DianeLitman Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 149–154 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1818 inproceedings zhang-litman:2014:W14-18 Exploiting Morphological, Grammatical, and Semantic Correlates for Improved Text Difficulty Assessment ElizabethSalesky WadeShen Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 155–162 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1819 inproceedings salesky-shen:2014:W14-18 Assessing the Readability of Sentences: Which Corpora and Features? FeliceDell'Orletta MartijnWieling GiuliaVenturi AndreaCimino SimonettaMontemagni Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 163–173 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1820 inproceedings dellorletta-EtAl:2014:W14-18 Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability IldikóPilán ElenaVolodina RichardJohansson Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 174–184 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-1821 inproceedings pilan-volodina-johansson:2014:W14-18