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# BEA 2016 — accepted papers

BEA 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in San Diego, CA, June 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 35 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, CA · 🗓 June 2016

[**35** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2016/#works) · [**222** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2016/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2016-text-readability-assessment-second-language/)**Menglin Xia, Ekaterina Kochmar, Ted Briscoe*141 citations · our summary*
2. **[Automatic Generation of Context-Based Fill-in-the-Blank Exercises Using Co-occurrence Likelihoods and Google n-grams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0503/)**Jennifer Hill, Rahul Simha*46 citations*
3. **[Sentence-Level Grammatical Error Identification as Sequence-to-Sequence Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0528/)**Allen Schmaltz, Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush et al.*46 citations*
4. **[Automated classification of collaborative problem solving interactions in simulated science tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0504/)**Michael Flor, Su-Youn Yoon, Jiangang Hao et al.*43 citations*
5. **[A Report on the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0506/)**Vidas Daudaravicius, Rafael E. Banchs, Elena Volodina et al.*40 citations*
6. **[Characterizing Text Difficulty with Word Frequencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0509/)**Xiaobin Chen, Detmar Meurers*38 citations*
7. **[Candidate re-ranking for SMT-based grammatical error correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0530/)**Zheng Yuan, Ted Briscoe, Mariano Felice*35 citations*
8. **[Insights from Russian second language readability classification: complexity-dependent training requirements, and feature evaluation of multiple categories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0534/)**Robert Reynolds*34 citations*
9. **[Linguistically Aware Information Retrieval: Providing Input Enrichment for Second Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0521/)**Maria Chinkina, Detmar Meurers*30 citations*
10. **[Investigating Active Learning for Short-Answer Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0535/)**Andrea Horbach, Alexis Palmer*29 citations*

## All accepted papers (35)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2016-text-readability-assessment-second-language/)**Menglin Xia, Ekaterina Kochmar, Ted Briscoe*141 citations · our summary*
2. **[Automatic Generation of Context-Based Fill-in-the-Blank Exercises Using Co-occurrence Likelihoods and Google n-grams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0503/)**Jennifer Hill, Rahul Simha*46 citations*
3. **[Sentence-Level Grammatical Error Identification as Sequence-to-Sequence Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0528/)**Allen Schmaltz, Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush et al.*46 citations*
4. **[Automated classification of collaborative problem solving interactions in simulated science tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0504/)**Michael Flor, Su-Youn Yoon, Jiangang Hao et al.*43 citations*
5. **[A Report on the Automatic Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0506/)**Vidas Daudaravicius, Rafael E. Banchs, Elena Volodina et al.*40 citations*
6. **[Characterizing Text Difficulty with Word Frequencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0509/)**Xiaobin Chen, Detmar Meurers*38 citations*
7. **[Candidate re-ranking for SMT-based grammatical error correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0530/)**Zheng Yuan, Ted Briscoe, Mariano Felice*35 citations*
8. **[Insights from Russian second language readability classification: complexity-dependent training requirements, and feature evaluation of multiple categories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0534/)**Robert Reynolds*34 citations*
9. **[Linguistically Aware Information Retrieval: Providing Input Enrichment for Second Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0521/)**Maria Chinkina, Detmar Meurers*30 citations*
10. **[Investigating Active Learning for Short-Answer Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0535/)**Andrea Horbach, Alexis Palmer*29 citations*
11. **[Topicality-Based Indices for Essay Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0507/)**Beata Beigman Klebanov, Michael Flor, Binod Gyawali*23 citations*
12. **[Sentence Similarity Measures for Fine-Grained Estimation of Topical Relevance in Learner Essays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0533/)**Marek Rei, Ronan Cummins*22 citations*
13. **[Automated scoring across different modalities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0514/)**Anastassia Loukina, Aoife Cahill*14 citations*
14. **[Spoken Text Difficulty Estimation Using Linguistic Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0531/)**Su-Youn Yoon, Yeonsuk Cho, Diane Napolitano*14 citations*
15. **[Evaluation Dataset (DT-Grade) and Word Weighting Approach towards Constructed Short Answers Assessment in Tutorial Dialogue Context ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0520/)**Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Nobal Bikram Niraula et al.*11 citations*
16. **[Unsupervised Modeling of Topical Relevance in L2 Learner Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0510/)**Ronan Cummins, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ted Briscoe*10 citations*
17. **[Automatically Scoring Tests of Proficiency in Music Instruction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0524/)**Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill, Brian Riordan*8 citations*
18. **[The Effect of Multiple Grammatical Errors on Processing Non-Native Writing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0501/)**Courtney Napoles, Aoife Cahill, Nitin Madnani*8 citations*
19. **[Automatically Extracting Topical Components for a Response-to-Text Writing Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0532/)**Zahra Rahimi, Diane Litman*6 citations*
20. **[Enhancing STEM Motivation through Personal and Communal Values: NLP for Assessment of Utility Value in Student Writing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0522/)**Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jill Burstein, Judith Harackiewicz et al.*6 citations*
21. **[Pictogrammar: an AAC device based on a semantic grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0516/)**Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Arturo Montejo-Ráez et al.*6 citations*
22. **[Predicting the Spelling Difficulty of Words for Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0508/)**Lisa Beinborn, Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych*6 citations*
23. **[UW-Stanford System Description for AESW 2016 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0511/)**Dan Flickinger, Michael Goodman, Woodley Packard*6 citations*
24. **[Exploring the Intersection of Short Answer Assessment, Authorship Attribution, and Plagiarism Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0527/)**Björn Rudzewitz*5 citations*
25. **[The NTNU-YZU System in the AESW Shared Task: Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing Using a Convolutional Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-0513/)**Lung-Hao Lee, Bo-Lin Lin, Liang-Chih Yu et al.*5 citations*

[See all 35 papers in BEA 2016 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2016/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2016-text-readability-assessment-second-language/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Menglin Xia, Ekaterina Kochmar, Ted Briscoe*2016 · 222 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Menglin Xia**1 work here · 222 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menglin-xia/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ted Briscoe**1 work here · 222 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-briscoe/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/)

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