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# BEA 2017 — accepted papers

BEA 2017 is the 2017 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 52 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.

[**52** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2017/#works) · [**82** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2017/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[A Report on the 2017 Native Language Identification Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5007/)**Shervin Malmasi, Keelan Evanini, Aoife Cahill et al.*160 citations*
2. **[Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5017/)**Brian Riordan, Andrea Horbach, Aoife Cahill et al.*151 citations*
3. **[Multiple Choice Question Generation Utilizing An Ontology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5034/)**Katherine Stasaski, Marti A. Hearst*63 citations*
4. **[Artificial Error Generation with Machine Translation and Syntactic Patterns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2017-artificial-error-generation-machine-translation/)**Marek Rei, Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan et al.*48 citations · our summary*
5. **[Connecting the Dots: Towards Human-Level Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5037/)**Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng*47 citations*
6. **[Distractor Generation for Chinese Fill-in-the-blank Items ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5015/)**Shu Jiang, John Lee*43 citations*
7. **[Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5050/)**Ana Valeria González-Garduño, Anders Søgaard*35 citations*
8. **[A Large Scale Quantitative Exploration of Modeling Strategies for Content Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5052/)**Nitin Madnani, Anastassia Loukina, Aoife Cahill*32 citations*
9. **[The Power of Character N-grams in Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5043/)**Artur Kulmizev, Bo Blankers, Johannes Bjerva et al.*30 citations*
10. **[Auxiliary Objectives for Neural Error Detection Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5004/)**Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis*29 citations*

## All accepted papers (52)

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

1. **[A Report on the 2017 Native Language Identification Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5007/)**Shervin Malmasi, Keelan Evanini, Aoife Cahill et al.*160 citations*
2. **[Investigating neural architectures for short answer scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5017/)**Brian Riordan, Andrea Horbach, Aoife Cahill et al.*151 citations*
3. **[Multiple Choice Question Generation Utilizing An Ontology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5034/)**Katherine Stasaski, Marti A. Hearst*63 citations*
4. **[Artificial Error Generation with Machine Translation and Syntactic Patterns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2017-artificial-error-generation-machine-translation/)**Marek Rei, Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan et al.*48 citations · our summary*
5. **[Connecting the Dots: Towards Human-Level Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5037/)**Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng*47 citations*
6. **[Distractor Generation for Chinese Fill-in-the-blank Items ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5015/)**Shu Jiang, John Lee*43 citations*
7. **[Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5050/)**Ana Valeria González-Garduño, Anders Søgaard*35 citations*
8. **[A Large Scale Quantitative Exploration of Modeling Strategies for Content Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5052/)**Nitin Madnani, Anastassia Loukina, Aoife Cahill*32 citations*
9. **[The Power of Character N-grams in Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5043/)**Artur Kulmizev, Bo Blankers, Johannes Bjerva et al.*30 citations*
10. **[Auxiliary Objectives for Neural Error Detection Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5004/)**Marek Rei, Helen Yannakoudakis*29 citations*
11. **[Question Difficulty – How to Estimate Without Norming, How to Use for Automated Grading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5001/)**Ulrike Padó*27 citations*
12. **[Systematically Adapting Machine Translation for Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5039/)**Courtney Napoles, Chris Callison-Burch*27 citations*
13. **[Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5006/)**Luca Lugini, Diane Litman*22 citations*
14. **[Structured Generation of Technical Reading Lists ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5029/)**Jonathan Gordon, Stephen Aguilar, Emily Sheng et al.*21 citations*
15. **[Stacked Sentence-Document Classifier Approach for Improving Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5049/)**Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta*20 citations*
16. **[Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5002/)**Lifeng Jin, Michael White, Evan Jaffe et al.*19 citations*
17. **[Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5038/)**Maria Chinkina, Detmar Meurers*19 citations*
18. **[CIC-FBK Approach to Native Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5042/)**Ilia Markov, Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava et al.*17 citations*
19. **[Human and Automated CEFR-based Grading of Short Answers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5018/)**Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Sophie Roekhaut et al.*17 citations*
20. **[Native Language Identification on Text and Speech ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5045/)**Marcos Zampieri, Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu*17 citations*
21. **[Combining Multiple Corpora for Readability Assessment for People with Cognitive Disabilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5013/)**Victoria Yaneva, Constantin Orăsan, Richard Evans et al.*16 citations*
22. **[Fine-grained essay scoring of a complex writing task for native speakers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5040/)**Andrea Horbach, Dirk Scholten-Akoun, Yuning Ding et al.*15 citations*
23. **[Predicting Audience's Laughter During Presentations Using Convolutional Neural Network ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5009/)**Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee*15 citations*
24. **[Can string kernels pass the test of time in Native Language Identification? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5024/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu*14 citations*
25. **[Fewer features perform well at Native Language Identification task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5028/)**Taraka Rama, Çağrı Çöltekin*13 citations*

[See all 52 papers in BEA 2017 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2017/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Artificial Error Generation with Machine Translation and Syntactic Patterns](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2017-artificial-error-generation-machine-translation/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Marek Rei, Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan, et al.*2017 · 82 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/)

## 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/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Marek Rei**1 work here · 82 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marek-rei/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mariano Felice**1 work here · 82 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mariano-felice/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ted Briscoe**1 work here · 82 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-briscoe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zheng Yuan**1 work here · 82 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-yuan/)

## 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/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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