Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| 8:45–9:00 | Load Presentations |
| 9:00–9:15 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15–9:40 | Automated Measures of Specific Vocabulary Knowledge from Constructed Responses (’Use These Words to Write a Sentence Based on this Picture’)
Swapna Somasundaran and Martin Chodorow |
| 9:40–10:05 | Automatic Assessment of the Speech of Young English Learners
Jian Cheng, Yuan Zhao D’Antilio, Xin Chen and Jared Bernstein |
| 10:05–10:25 | Automatic detection of plagiarized spoken responses
Keelan Evanini and Xinhao Wang |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:20 | Understanding MOOC Discussion Forums using Seeded LDA
Arti Ramesh, Dan Goldwasser, Bert Huang, Hal Daume and Lise Getoor |
| 11:20–12:30 | Invited Speaker: Norbert Elliot |
| 12:20–2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:30 | Posters and Demos |
| | Translation Class Instruction as Collaboration in the Act of Translation
Lars Ahrenberg and Ljuba Tarvi |
| | The pragmatics of margin comments: An empirical study
Debora Field, Stephen Pulman and Denise Whitelock |
| | Surprisal as a Predictor of Essay Quality
Gaurav Kharkwal and Smaranda Muresan |
| | Towards Domain-Independent Assessment of Elementary Students’ Science Competency using Soft Cardinality
Samuel Leeman-Munk, Angela Shelton, Eric Wiebe and James Lester |
| | Automatic evaluation of spoken summaries: the case of language assessment
Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner and Lei Chen |
| | An Explicit Feedback System for Preposition Errors based on Wikipedia Revisions
Nitin Madnani and Aoife Cahill |
| | Syllable and language model based features for detecting non-scorable tests in spoken language proficiency assessment applications
Angeliki Metallinou and Jian Cheng |
| | Improving Peer Feedback Prediction: The Sentence Level is Right
Huy Nguyen and Diane Litman |
| | ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors
C. Anton Rytting, Paul Rodrigues, Tim Buckwalter, Valerie Novak, Aric Bills, Noah H. Silbert and Mohini Madgavkar |
| | Similarity-Based Non-Scorable Response Detection for Automated Speech Scoring
Su-Youn Yoon and Shasha Xie |
| | Natural Language Generation with Vocabulary Constraints
Ben Swanson, Elif Yamangil and Eugene Charniak |
| | 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 and Chee Wee Leong |
| | Automatic Generation of Challenging Distractors Using Context-Sensitive Inference Rules
Torsten Zesch and Oren Melamud |
| | Sentence-level Rewriting Detection
Fan Zhang and Diane Litman |
| 3:30–4:00 | Break |
| 4:00–4:25 | Exploiting Morphological, Grammatical, and Semantic Correlates for Improved Text Difficulty Assessment
Elizabeth Salesky and Wade Shen |
| 4:25–4:50 | Assessing the Readability of Sentences: Which Corpora and Features?
Felice Dell’Orletta, Martijn Wieling, Giulia Venturi, Andrea Cimino and Simonetta Montemagni |
| 4:50–5:15 | Rule-based and machine learning approaches for second language sentence-level readability
Ildikó Pilán, Elena Volodina and Richard Johansson |
| 5:15–5:30 | Closing Remarks |