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Jan 3, 2024 BEA 2024 Shared Task

The BEA 2024 workshop at NAACL will feature the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline (MLSP) shared task. Looking forward to your participation!

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Dec 21, 2023 BEA 2024 Shared Task

The BEA 2024 workshop at NAACL will feature a shared task on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time. Looking forward to your participation!

Oct 13, 2023 Tenure-Stream Assistant Professor Job 2023

The School of Computing and Information (SCI) and Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at University of Pittsburgh seek to hire a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor (SCI) and Research Scientist (LRDC) at the confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Learning Science.

Oct 4, 2023 BEA19 Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that the 19th edition of the BEA workshop will take place at NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico on June 20 or 21, 2024.

Sep 8, 2023 BEA 2023 Shared Task Follow-Up

The shared task data and metrics are now available for download. See this blog post for more information.

Jul 10, 2023 BEA18 Proceedings

The proceedings of the BEA 2023 workshop are out: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.bea-1/

May 5, 2023 AIED 2023 Intelligent Textbooks CFP

Final Call for Papers - Fifth Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks @ The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED’2023)

Apr 24, 2023 BEA 2023 Deadline Extension

The BEA 2023 submission deadline is extended to Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Looking forward to your submissions!

Mar 24, 2023 BEA 2023 Shared Task

The BEA 2023 workshop at ACL will feature a shared task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues. The competition is now open on CodaLab. Looking forward to your participation!

Feb 13, 2023 LANGLEARN Shared Task Call for Participation

The shared task on Language Learning Development (LANGLEARN) will be held in Parma, Italia (September 7th-8th 2023).

Dec 19, 2022 BEA18 Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that the 18th edition of the BEA workshop will take place at ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada on July 13, 2023.

Oct 17, 2022 Call for Participation: Personalized Adventures in Learning (PAL): The Future of AI in Education

The Personalized Adventures in Learning (PAL): The Future of AI in Education virtual workshop, taking place this and next week (Oct 18-19 and Oct 24-25), 1:00PM - 5:00PM EST, may be of interest to the SIGEDU and BEA community. Topics covered include production of AI personalized …

Aug 30, 2022 NLP4CALL 2022 Second Call for Papers

The 11th NLP4CALL workshop will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on December 9, 2022.

Aug 9, 2022 SIGEDU Newsletter – August 2022

A new edition of the SIGEDU/BEA newsletter has been posted!

Jul 26, 2022 Ambassador Paper Award at the 17th BEA Workshop

The following paper was voted the ambassador paper at the 17th BEA workshop: “Educational Multi-Question Generation for Reading Comprehension” by Manav Rathod, Tony Tu and Katherine Stasaski.

Jul 15, 2022 BEA17 Proceedings

The proceedings of the BEA17 workshop are out: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.bea-1/

Apr 1, 2022 BEA17 Deadline Extension

The BEA17 submission deadline is extended to Friday, April 8, 2022.

Feb 11, 2022 BEA17 Call for Papers

The first Call for Papers for the BEA17 workshop is out. We are looking forward to your submissions!

Nov 21, 2021 BEA17 Announcement

The BEA 2022 workshop has been accepted and will be co-located with NAACL 2022 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The workshop will take place on Friday, July 15, 2022. The submission deadline is Friday, April 1, 2022.

Aug 4, 2021 2021 SIGEDU Election Results

The results of the SIGEDU elections have been announced!

Jun 29, 2021 BEA16 Slides

Thanks everyone for a great virtual BEA workshop! Slides for the workshop presentations are now linked from the schedule. If you don’t see your slides yet, make sure you email them to us.

Apr 15, 2021 BEA16 Schedule

The final schedule for BEA 2021 is now availale! We look forward to seeing you!

Feb 25, 2021 BEA16 Accepted Papers

The decisions for BEA 2021 submissions have been emailed to the authors. Thanks everyone for for your hard work! See here for the list of accepted papers. Camera-ready versions are due March 4th!

Jan 18, 2021 BEA16 Deadline Extension

Due to multiple requests, we have extended the BEA 2021 paper submission deadline to January 25th, 11:59 pm UTC-12.

Nov 27, 2020 BEA16 Announcement

The BEA 2021 workshop has been accepted and will be co-located with EACL. BEA 2021 will be held entirely online on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. The submission deadline is Monday, January 18, 2021. Looking forward to your submissions!

Jul 15, 2020 BEA15 Slides

Thanks everyone for a great virtual BEA workshop! Slides for the workshop presentations are now linked from the schedule. If you don’t see your slides yet, make sure you email them to us.

Jul 9, 2020 BEA15 Useful Notes

We have posted some useful notes for the new virtual workshop format. Note that this is the first ever virtual BEA, so please bear with us if things don’t work as expected!

Jun 12, 2020 BEA15 Schedule

The schedule for the first ever virtual BEA 2020 is up! All authors should already have received instructions to pre-record their talks.

May 19, 2020 PRELEARN Shared Task Call for Participation

The 1st shared task on Automatic Prerequisite Learning (PRELEARN) will be held in Bologna, Italia (November 30th-December 3rd 2020).

May 11, 2020 BEA15 Accepted Papers

The decisions for BEA 2020 submissions have been emailed to the authors. Thanks everyone for for your hard work! See here for the list of accepted papers. Camera-ready versions are due May 25th!

Apr 23, 2020 BEA15 Reviews

BEA reviewer assignments have been posted! Please log into your START accounts and submit your reviews by May 7. Authors will be notified of acceptance on May 11 and camera-ready versions are due on May 25.

Apr 2, 2020 BEA15 Deadline Extension

Due to multiple requests and in view of the current situation, we have extended the BEA 2020 paper submission deadline to April 13th, 11:59 pm EST. For COVID-19 updates on ACL 2020, please refer to the conference website.

Jan 24, 2020 BEA15 Workshop Date

It’s final! The 15th BEA workshop will be held on Friday, July 10, 2020.

Nov 4, 2019 WAC 2019 Call for Participation

The proposal submission deadline for the 9th Writing Analytics Conference has been extended to November 15, 2019. Consider submitting! It’s a great opportunity to meet and interact with writing researchers!

Nov 1, 2019 BEA15 Announcement

The BEA 2020 workshop has been accepted and will be co-located with ACL 2020 in Seattle, Washington, USA! The submission deadline for BEA15 is Monday, April 6th, 2020 and the workshop will be on either Thursday, July 9 or Friday, July 10, 2020 (TBD). We hope to see you there!

Aug 8, 2019 SLaTE 2019 Call for Participation

The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019) will be held in Graz, Austria, on September 20 - 21, co-located with Interspeech.

Aug 8, 2019 BEA14 Proceedings

The Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application (bea2019) are now available online.

Aug 2, 2019 BEA14 Vote for the Ambassador Paper

The slides for the opening remarks are now available online! Please don’t forget to vote for the BEA14 ambassador paper and please do sign up for the post-workshop dinner! The dinner will be at Trattoria Coco Lezzone.

Jul 27, 2019 BEA14 Location

BEA 2019 will take place in Hall 2. ACL instructions for presenters are now available!

May 30, 2019 BEA14 Schedule

BEA 2019 schedule is now available! Thanks to all the authors and reviewers for your hard work! We look forward to seeing you in Florence!

Apr 28, 2019 BEA14 Double Submissions Policy

We have added an explicit double-submission policy to the call for papers for BEA.

Apr 24, 2019 BEA14 Deadline Extension

The BEA 2019 deadline has been extended until Monday, April 29, 11:59pm EST. Get those papers in!

Apr 16, 2019 SIGEDU/BEA Newsletter #3

The latest edition of the SIGEDU/BEA newsletter has been posted!

Jan 14, 2019 SIGEDU/BEA Newsletter #2

A new edition of the SIGEDU/BEA newsletter has been posted!

Dec 7, 2018 BEA14 Announcement

BEA 2019 has been accepted and will be co-located with ACL 2019 in Florence, Italy. The submission deadline is Friday, April 26th, 2019 and the workshop date is Friday, August 2nd, 2019. We hope to see you there!