@InProceedings{lugini-EtAl:2018:W18-05,
  author    = {Lugini, Luca  and  Litman, Diane  and  Godley, Amanda  and  Olshefski, Christopher},
  title     = {Annotating Student Talk in Text-based Classroom Discussions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {New Orleans, Louisiana},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {110--116},
  abstract  = {Classroom discussions in English Language Arts have a positive effect on students' reading, writing and reasoning skills. Although prior work has largely focused on teacher talk and student-teacher interactions, we focus on three theoretically-motivated aspects of high-quality student talk: argumentation, specificity, and knowledge domain. We introduce an annotation scheme, then show that the scheme can be used to produce reliable annotations and that the annotations are predictive of discussion quality. We also highlight opportunities provided by our scheme for education and natural language processing research.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-0511}
}