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 will be the first edition of BEA as a 2-day hybrid 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. 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 LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts
- 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;
- use of generative AI in education and its impact;
- 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.
Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2025
- Camera-ready papers due: June 9, 2025
- Pre-recorded video due: July 7, 2025
- Workshop dates: July 31st - August 1st 2025
Submission website: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/