Thursday June 16, 2016 |
| 08:45–09:00 | Load Oral Presentations |
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:15–09:40 | The Effect of Multiple Grammatical Errors on Processing Non-Native Writing
Courtney Napoles, Aoife Cahill and Nitin Madnani |
| 09:40–10:05 | Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners
Menglin Xia, Ekaterina Kochmar and Ted Briscoe |
| 10:05–10:30 | Automatic Generation of Context-Based Fill-in-the-Blank Exercises Using Co-occurrence Likelihoods and Google n-grams
Jennifer Hill and Rahul Simha |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:25 | Automated classification of collaborative problem solving interactions in simulated science tasks
Michael Flor, Su-Youn Yoon, Jiangang Hao, Lei Liu and Alina von Davier |
| 11:25–11:50 | Computer-assisted stylistic revision with incomplete and noisy feedback. A pilot study
Christian M. Meyer and Johann Frerik Koch |
| 11:50–12:15 | A Report on the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task
Vidas Daudaravicius, Rafael E. Banchs, Elena Volodina and Courtney Napoles |
| 12:25–02:00 | Lunch |
| 02:00–02:45 | Poster and Demo Session A |
| | Topicality-Based Indices for Essay Scoring
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Michael Flor and Binod Gyawali |
| | Predicting the Spelling Difficulty of Words for Language Learners
Lisa Beinborn, Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych |
| | Characterizing Text Difficulty with Word Frequencies
Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers |
| | Unsupervised Modeling of Topical Relevance in L2 Learner Text
Ronan Cummins, Helen Yannakoudakis and Ted Briscoe |
| | UW-Stanford System Description for AESW 2016 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Detection
Dan Flickinger, Michael Goodman and Woodley Packard |
| | Shallow Semantic Reasoning from an Incomplete Gold Standard for Learner Language
Levi King and Markus Dickinson |
| | The NTNU-YZU System in the AESW Shared Task: Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing Using a Convolutional Neural Network
Lung-Hao Lee, Bo-Lin Lin, Liang-Chih Yu and Yuen-Hsien Tseng |
| | Automated scoring across different modalities
Anastassia Loukina and Aoife Cahill |
| | Model Combination for Correcting Preposition Selection Errors
Nitin Madnani, Michael Heilman and Aoife Cahill |
| | Pictogrammar: an AAC device based on a semantic grammar
Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras, Arturo Montejo Ráez and Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano |
| | Detecting Context Dependence in Exercise Item Candidates Selected from Corpora
Ildikó Pilán |
| | Feature-Rich Error Detection in Scientific Writing Using Logistic Regression
Madeline Remse, Mohsen Mesgar and Michael Strube |
| | Bundled Gap Filling: A New Paradigm for Unambiguous Cloze Exercises
Michael Wojatzki, Oren Melamud and Torsten Zesch |
| 02:45–03:30 | Poster and Demo Session B |
| | Evaluation Dataset (DT-Grade) and Word Weighting Approach towards Constructed Short Answers Assessment in Tutorial Dialogue Context
Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal Bikram Niraula, Dipesh Gautam, Borhan Samei and Vasile Rus |
| | Linguistically Aware Information Retrieval: Providing Input Enrichment for Second Language Learners
Maria Chinkina and Detmar Meurers |
| | Enhancing STEM Motivation through Personal and Communal Values: NLP for Assessment of Utility Value in Student Writing
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jill Burstein, Judith Harackiewicz, Stacy Priniski and Matthew Mulholland |
| | Cost-Effectiveness in Building a Low-Resource Morphological Analyzer for Learner Language
Scott Ledbetter and Markus Dickinson |
| | Automatically Scoring Tests of Proficiency in Music Instruction
Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill and Brian Riordan |
| | Combined Tree Kernel-based classifiers for Assessing Quality of Scientific Text
Liliana Mamani Sanchez and Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya |
| | Augmenting Course Material with Open Access Textbooks
Smitha Milli and Marti A. Hearst |
| | Exploring the Intersection of Short Answer Assessment, Authorship Attribution, and Plagiarism Detection
Björn Rudzewitz |
| | Sentence-Level Grammatical Error Identification as Sequence-to-Sequence Correction
Allen Schmaltz, Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush and Stuart Shieber |
| | Combining Off-the-shelf Grammar and Spelling Tools for the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing (AESW) Shared Task 2016
René Witte and Bahar Sateli |
| | Candidate re-ranking for SMT-based grammatical error correction
Zheng Yuan, Ted Briscoe and Mariano Felice |
| | Spoken Text Difficulty Estimation Using Linguistic Features
Su-Youn Yoon, Yeonsuk Cho and Diane Napolitano |
| | Automatically Extracting Topical Components for a Response-to-Text Writing Assessment
Zahra Rahimi and Diane Litman |
| 03:30–04:00 | Break |
| 04:00–04:20 | Sentence Similarity Measures for Fine-Grained Estimation of Topical Relevance in Learner Essays
Marek Rei and Ronan Cummins |
| 04:20–04:45 | Insights from Russian second language readability classification: complexity-dependent training requirements, and feature evaluation of multiple categories
Robert Reynolds |
| 04:45–05:10 | Investigating Active Learning for Short-Answer Scoring
Andrea Horbach and Alexis Palmer |
| 05:10–05:25 | Closing Remarks |