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From: Godley, Amanda Joan
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 10:43 AM
To: Litman, Diane J; rebecca hwa; David Brown; Han, Na-Rae
Subject: Spring Discourse Workshop - Open Participation Day, April 10, 2019, Carnegie Mellon University

Hi, Diane, Rebecca, Na-Rae and David-

You and your colleagues are invited to attend the workshop below on the application of Human Language Technologies to classroom discourse. Could you forward it on to any interested colleagues or university groups?

Thank you!
Amanda

Dr. Amanda Godley

ago...@pitt.edu

University of Pittsburgh

Professor, English Education & Language, Literacy and Culture

Spring

Discourse Workshop - Open Participation Day April 10

Funded

by the National Science Foundation Grant

ACI-1443068

Carnegie

Mellon University, Gates-Hillman Center 8102

Organizers:

Carolyn

Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University

Amanda

Godley, University of Pittsburgh

Sherice

Clarke, University of California at San Diego

Sadhana

Puntambekar, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Invited

Analysts:

Sidney

D’Mello, University of Colorado at Boulder

Allison

Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago

Peter

Hastings, Depaul University

Cassie

Quigley, University of Pittsburgh

Alina

Reznitskaya, Montclair State University

James

Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University

Noreen

Webb, University of California at Los Angeles

This

workshop is meant to foster

collaboration and capacity in the application of human language technologies (HLT) to the study and improvement of K-12 education.

Current

research, theory, and policy surrounding K-12 instruction in the United States highlight the role of classroom talk in instructional quality and student learning. However, most studies of productive classroom talk are small scale and use researcher-specific

analytical codes, in part because of the difficulty and expense of collecting and analyzing enough discourse data to draw valid inferences about the relationship between talk and learning across classroom settings. Recent advances in human language technologies

offer a promising opportunity to address these challenges through the automatic and semi-automatic computer-based analysis of multiparty talk. Our proposed workshop is a first step towards solving these issues. Our aim is to begin building a shared database

of classroom discourse data (video, audio and transcripts) using the Discourse DB platform to support storage, analysis, and sharing of discourse data for research.

The

workshop will take place at Carnegie Mellon University (Gates-Hillman Center 8102) over two days (April 10th and 11th), however, the second day is by invitation only. The first day is open to anyone who is interested and free of charge. Please RSVP at the

following link:

https://forms.gle/5HQE4kCtDopcfsac9

the first day of the workshop, invited participants will report on analyses of a shared dataset of classroom discourse through Discourse DB. We will use these presentations to ground discussions about analysis, comparing and contrasting empirical and theoretical

foundations of classroom talk, as well as collaboratively brainstorming useful features of discourse databases and platforms at the workshop.

The

schedule for the open participation day is as follows: