2024Q3 Reports: SIGEDU
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- Membership: SIGEDU has 417 members.
- Officers: Officers were elected to serve from 2021 - 2024 as follows: Ekaterina Kochmar, Chair; Andrea Horbach, Secretary; Zheng Yuan, Treasurer. Next elections will be held in 2024.
- Board: The SIGEDU Committee is composed of Ekaterina Kochmar, Andrea Horbach, Zheng Yuan, Jill Burstein, Nitin Madnani, Anais Tack, and Victoria Yaneva. Ronja Laarmann-Quante is a continuing member, and Marie Bexte is a new member of the Organizing Committee for the annual workshop for Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application (BEA).
- Workshop: The SIG’s major activity is the organization of the annual workshop. In 2024, the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Application (BEA) was held in a hybrid mode – in Mexico City in conjunction with NAACL 2024 and online. BEA 2024 received 88 submissions and hosted two shared tasks – on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time (APIDIRT) and on Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline (MLSP), and one keynote by Alla Rozovskaya (Queens College, City University of New York) on Multilingual Low-Resource Natural Language Processing for Language Learning. This year, the workshop also allocated 3 outstanding paper awards. The SIG intends to submit a workshop proposal to an ACL-sponsored conference in 2025.
- Other activities: The SIG is on the Board of the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Age (IAALDE). Part of this relationship involves selecting a paper from the SIG’s workshop to be presented at another venue associated with other Board members. This is an effort to cross-pollinate across AI in education organizations. As part of the workshop, organizers selected the papers with the best reviews and highest scores to be presented at BEA, and the workshop attendees voted for the best presentation. This paper will be selected to represent the SIG at one of the other venues participating in http://www.alliancelss.com/. Last year's ambassador paper (Is ChatGPT a Good Teacher Coach? Measuring Zero-Shot Performance For Scoring and Providing Actionable Insights on Classroom Instruction by Rose Wang and Dorottya Demszky) will be presented at AIED conference in July 2024 with the support from SIGEDU.
- Website and mailing list: We have a working website (https://sig-edu.org) that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to BEA proceedings. New members can sign up through a form on the website.