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Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Joel Tetreault | Jill Burstein | Claudia Leacock

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Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (‘Use These Words to Write a Sentence Based on this Picture’)
Swapna Somasundaran | Martin Chodorow

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Automatic Assessment of the Speech of Young English Learners
Jian Cheng | Yuan Zhao D’Antilio | Xin Chen | Jared Bernstein

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Automatic detection of plagiarized spoken responses
Keelan Evanini | Xinhao Wang

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Understanding MOOC Discussion Forums using Seeded LDA
Arti Ramesh | Dan Goldwasser | Bert Huang | Hal Daumé | Lise Getoor

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Translation Class Instruction as Collaboration in the Act of Translation
Lars Ahrenberg | Ljuba Tarvi

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The pragmatics of margin comments: An empirical study
Debora Field | Stephen Pulman | Denise Whitelock

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Surprisal as a Predictor of Essay Quality
Gaurav Kharkwal | Smaranda Muresan

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Towards Domain-Independent Assessment of Elementary Students’ Science Competency using Soft Cardinality
Samuel Leeman-Munk | Angela Shelton | Eric Wiebe | James Lester

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Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment
Anastassia Loukina | Klaus Zechner | Lei Chen

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An Explicit Feedback System for Preposition Errors based on Wikipedia Revisions
Nitin Madnani | Aoife Cahill

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Syllable and language model based features for detecting non-scorable tests in spoken language proficiency assessment applications
Angeliki Metallinou | Jian Cheng

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Improving Peer Feedback Prediction: The Sentence Level is Right
Huy Nguyen | Diane Litman

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ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors
C. Anton Rytting | Paul Rodrigues | Tim Buckwalter | Valerie Novak | Aric Bills | Noah H. Silbert | Mohini Madgavkar

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Similarity-Based Non-Scorable Response Detection for Automated Speech Scoring
Su-Youn Yoon | Shasha Xie

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Natural Language Generation with Vocabulary Constraints
Ben Swanson | Elif Yamangil | Eugene Charniak

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Automated scoring of speaking items in an assessment for teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Klaus Zechner | Keelan Evanini | Su-Youn Yoon | Lawrence Davis | Xinhao Wang | Lei Chen | Chong Min Lee | Chee Wee Leong

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Automatic Generation of Challenging Distractors Using Context-Sensitive Inference Rules
Torsten Zesch | Oren Melamud

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Sentence-level Rewriting Detection
Fan Zhang | Diane Litman

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Exploiting Morphological, Grammatical, and Semantic Correlates for Improved Text Difficulty Assessment
Elizabeth Salesky | Wade Shen

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Assessing the Readability of Sentences: Which Corpora and Features?
Felice Dell’Orletta | Martijn Wieling | Giulia Venturi | Andrea Cimino | Simonetta Montemagni

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Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability
Ildikó Pilán | Elena Volodina | Richard Johansson