Latest News
Nov 6, 2024 BEA19 Announcement
We are thrilled to announce that the 20th edition of the BEA workshop will take place at ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria from July 31 to August 1, 2025.
Jun 20, 2024 BEA 2024 Paper Awards
During the closing remarks of BEA 2024, three papers received awards: one best paper and two outstanding student papers.
Jun 18, 2024 Panel: Large Language Models (LLMs) and their Impact on Education
NAACL 2024 featured a panel discussion on the impact of large language models (LLMs) on education, with panelists Karen Matías (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Swapna Somasundaran (ETS), Victoria Yaneva (NBME), and Ekaterina Kochmar (MBZUAI).
Welcome!
SIGEDU is the Association for Computational Linguistics special interest group for building educational applications. Anyone can become a member of SIGEDU. If you are interested, please fill out this form.
This is a community website. If you would like to share resources, tools, announce job positions, information on related events, or start a discussion on educational applications, you are invited to submit a guest blog post by following the instructions here. All submissions will be reviewed by the SIGEDU executive board and published if approved.
About
SIGEDU was founded in 2017 and is ACL’s newest SIG. SIGEDU has the following goals:
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promote interdisciplinary interest in educational applications.
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promote the exchange and distribution of recent developments within the field of educational technology development.
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provide means and venues for exchanging news on cutting-edge technology and advances within the field.
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promote collaboration both within the ACL community as well as between the ACL and other communities working on educational applications.
BEA Workshop
SIGEDU organizes the annual workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications – colloquially known as the BEA Workshop.
BEA Shared Tasks
SIGEDU members have organized a variety of interesting shared tasks. Check them out on our shared tasks page.
Anti-Harassment Policy
SIGEDU adheres to the ACL Anti-Harassment Policy for the BEA workshops. Any participant of the workshop who experiences harassment or hostile behavior may contact any current member of the ACL Executive Committee or contact Priscilla Rasmussen, who is usually available at the registration desk of the conference. Please be assured that if you approach us, your concerns will be kept in strict confidence, and we will consult with you on any actions taken.