1st CFP: 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)

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First Call for Papers

The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)

Vienna, Austria and online

Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025

(co-located with ACL 2025)

https://sig-edu.org/bea/current

 Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. 

The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as a 2-day workshop, and it will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors, and a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward (more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. 

The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: 
  • use of generative AI in education and its impact;
  • automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
  • automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres);
  • game-based instruction and assessment;
  • educational data mining;
  • intelligent tutoring;
  • collaborative learning environments;
  • peer review;
  • grammatical error detection and correction;
  • learner cognition;
  • spoken dialog;
  • multimodal applications;
  • annotation standards and schemas;
  • tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and
  • use of corpora in educational tools.

INVITED TALKS

  

The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE societies. 


IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
  • Submission deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: Thursday, May 22, 2025
  • Camera-ready papers due: Monday, June 9, 2025
  • Workshop: Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit.

Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page.

Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”.

We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you.

We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/


DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY

We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must:
  • Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted.
  • State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp....@gmail.com


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giora Alexandron (Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg); Bashar Alhafni (New York University); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Beata Beigman Klebanov (ETS); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Kay Berkling (Dhbw); Shayekh Bin Islam (Independent Researcher); Kristy Boyer (University of Florida); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Dominique Brunato (Institute of Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” / ILC-CNR); Okan Bulut (University of Alberta); Jill Burstein (Duolingo); Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania); Jie Cao (University of Oklahoma); Dan Carpenter (North Carolina State University); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (“Romania National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest”); Guanliang Chen (Monash University); Mei-Hua Chen (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University/RIKEN); Syaamantak Das (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Chris Davis (Amazon; University of Cambridge); Francisco de Arriba Pérez (Universidade de Vigo); Kordula De Kuthy (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University (Belgium)); Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional); Yo Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Hamza El Alaoui (Carnegie Mellon University); Effat Farhana (Auburn University); Nigel Fernandez (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service); Jennifer-Carmen Frey (Eurac Research); Thomas Gaillat (Université Rennes 2); Ananya Ganesh (University of Colorado); Lingyu Gao (Educational Testing Service); Silvia García-Méndez (University of Vigo); Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Hannah Gonzalez (Microsoft and University of Pennsylvania); Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann Institute of Science); Na-Rae Han (University of Pittsburgh); Ching Nam Hang (Yam Pak Charitable Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Saint Francis University, Hong Kong); Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Omer Hemdan Abbdel-Aziz (Cairo University); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes University - LS2N); Chieh-Yang Huang (MetaMetrics Inc.); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State University); Joseph Marvin Imperial (University of Bath); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (Meta); Elma Kerz (Exaia Technologies); Fazel Keshtkar (ST. John’s University); Levi King (Google, Indiana University); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Joni Kruijsbergen (Language and Translation Technology Team, Ghent University); Alexander Kwako (Cambium Assessment); Kristopher Kyle (Linguistics, University of Oregon); Yunshi Lan (East China Normal University); Ji-Ung Lee (Universität des Saarlandes); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Zhexiong Liu (University of Pittsburgh); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Lieve Macken (Ghent University); Nitin Madnani (Duolingo); Khyati Mahajan (ServiceNow); James Martin (University of Colorado Boulder); Arianna Masciolini (University of Gothenburg); Sandeep Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Kaushal Kumar Maurya (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi UAE); Detmar Meurers (Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien & Universität Tübingen); Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez (Gothenburg University); Farah Nadeem (Lahore University of Management Sciences); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Aneet Narendranath (Michigan Technological University); Huy Nguyen (Amazon); Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); S Jaya Nirmala (National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli); Sergiu Nisioi (University of Bucharest); Amin Omidvar (York University); Daniel Oyeniran (University of Alabama); Ulrike Pado (HFT Stuttgart); Long Qin (Alibaba); Mengyang Qiu (Trent University); Arjun Ramesh Rao (Netflix); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Aiala Rosá (Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, Udelar); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York); Maja Stahl (Leibniz University Hannover); Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh (University of Colorado Boulder); Alexandra Uitdenbogerd (RMIT); Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council, Canada); Justin Vasselli (Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Giulia Venturi (Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC)); Amit Arjun Verma (Guvi Geek Network); Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Yiqiao Xu (MetLife Inc.); An-Zi Yen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University); Torsten Zesch (FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Amazon); Mike Zhang (Aalborg University); Yang Zhong (University of Pittsburgh); Qingyu Zhou (Bytedance); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR); Liang Zou (New York University, Amazon).
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