The Second Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing Two major research areas in educational applications, automated evaluation of students' free-responses and intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), have developed fairly autonomously within the NLP community. We made progress toward bridging this gap in the First Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP in 2003, where researchers in a wide variety of educational applications met at NAACL 2003 in Edmonton to share their research - both in the speech- and text-based communities. Papers dealt with automated evaluation of essay-length texts and classification of brief responses that students enter into a tutoring system. Other research that was reported included exploring the value of using grammar checking within a tutoring system, comparing speech- and text-based tutoring systems, and automatically generating multiple-choice questions. There continues to be a significant and fast-growing body of research toward developing educational applications that incorporate NLP. This has become apparent as, since the First Workshop in 2003, subsequent workshops have been held by scientists working in this field (InSTIL/ICALL 2004 Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning and the eLearning International Workshop, COLING 2004 ). We hope that this workshop will continue to facilitate communication between researchers who work on all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Our goal is to continue to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in educational applications. For this workshop, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: * Speech-based tools for educational technology * Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for domain-specific responses * Content-based scoring * Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based analyses * Dialogue systems in education * Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education * Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building * Multi-modal communication between human learners and machines * Automated assessment of students' language and cognitive skill levels * Automated systems that detect and adapt to learners' cognitive or emotional states * Semantic-based access to instructional materials * Automated universal access to educational materials * Knowledge representation in learning systems * Visualization of concepts in learning systems * Automated processing of spoken and written lecture materials * Hypothesis formation and testing in automated tutoring systems * Machine translation for education-related tools * Tools for teachers and test developers * E-learning tools for personalized course content * Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing Organizing Co-Chairs: Jill Burstein Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, MS 10R Princeton, NJ 08541 jburstein@ets.org Claudia Leacock Pearson Knowledge Technologies 4940 Pearl Drive East Boulder, CO 80301 cleacock@pearsonkt.com Program Committee: Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA Paul Deane, Educational Testing Service, USA Art Graesser, University of Memphis, USA Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service, USA Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation, USA Michael Levinson, Queens University, CANADA Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Karen Lochbaum, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, USA Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California, USA Thomas Morton, Educational Testing Service, USA Jack Mostow, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Frederique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe, FRANCE C-C Shei, University of Swansea, UK Randall Sparks, Pearson Knowledge Technologies, USA Jana Sukkarieh, Oxford University, UK Lee Schwartz, Microsoft Corp., USA Susanne Wolff, Princeton University, USA Magdalena Wolska, Universitat des Saarlandes, GERMANY Keiji Yasuda, ATR, JAPAN Ming Zhou, Microsoft Asia, Beijing, CHINA Special Student Short Papers: We invite student submissions for Regular Papers, but also plan to accept 2 - 4 student Short Papers for the workshop. These Short Papers may be on more preliminary research, or research that is based on class projects. The length of the papers will be a maximum of 4 pages. At the workshop, these short papers will be delivered in a 15 minute timeframe, instead of 30 minutes. Submission Deadlines: Submissions Due: April 5, 2005 Acceptance Notification to Authors: May 9, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 20, 2005 Instructions for Submission: Submissions should be in PDF, PostScript, or MS Word. Please let us know if this is not possible for you. Regular Papers should not exceed 8 pages, and student Short Papers should not exceed 4 pages. More detailed information about format of submissions can be found here: http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/index.php?stylefiles Please e-mail your submission to jburstein@ets.org AND cleacock@pearsonkt.com , no later than April 5, 2005 by noon EST. Indicate in your submission e-mail if the paper is intended to be a Regular Paper, or a student Short Paper. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions regarding the workshop.