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# BEA 2018 — accepted papers

BEA 2018 is the 2018 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2018 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 50 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.

📍 New Orleans, Louisiana · 🗓 June 2018

[**50** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2018/#works) · [**191** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2018/#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 Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0507/)**Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Shervin Malmasi et al.*132 citations*
2. **[OneStopEnglish corpus: A new corpus for automatic readability assessment and text simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vajjala-2018-onestopenglish-corpus-new-corpus-automatic/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Ivana Lučić*108 citations · our summary*
3. **[Second Language Acquisition Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0506/)**Burr Settles, Chris Brust, Erin Gustafson et al.*72 citations*
4. **[Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0533/)**Chen Liang, Xiao Yang, Neisarg Dave et al.*66 citations*
5. **[Co-Attention Based Neural Network for Source-Dependent Essay Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0549/)**Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman*49 citations*
6. **[Language Model Based Grammatical Error Correction without Annotated Training Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0529/)**Christopher Bryant, Ted Briscoe*44 citations*
7. **[CAMB at CWI Shared Task 2018: Complex Word Identification with Ensemble-Based Voting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0520/)**Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar*43 citations*
8. **[A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530/)**Michael Flor, Brian Riordan*38 citations*
9. **[Estimating Linguistic Complexity for Science Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0505/)**Farah Nadeem, Mari Ostendorf*33 citations*
10. **[Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0515/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Taraka Rama*33 citations*

## All accepted papers (50)

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

1. **[A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0507/)**Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Shervin Malmasi et al.*132 citations*
2. **[OneStopEnglish corpus: A new corpus for automatic readability assessment and text simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vajjala-2018-onestopenglish-corpus-new-corpus-automatic/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Ivana Lučić*108 citations · our summary*
3. **[Second Language Acquisition Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0506/)**Burr Settles, Chris Brust, Erin Gustafson et al.*72 citations*
4. **[Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0533/)**Chen Liang, Xiao Yang, Neisarg Dave et al.*66 citations*
5. **[Co-Attention Based Neural Network for Source-Dependent Essay Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0549/)**Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman*49 citations*
6. **[Language Model Based Grammatical Error Correction without Annotated Training Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0529/)**Christopher Bryant, Ted Briscoe*44 citations*
7. **[CAMB at CWI Shared Task 2018: Complex Word Identification with Ensemble-Based Voting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0520/)**Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar*43 citations*
8. **[A Semantic Role-based Approach to Open-Domain Automatic Question Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0530/)**Michael Flor, Brian Riordan*38 citations*
9. **[Estimating Linguistic Complexity for Science Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0505/)**Farah Nadeem, Mari Ostendorf*33 citations*
10. **[Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0515/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Taraka Rama*33 citations*
11. **[Complex Word Identification Based on Frequency in a Learner Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0521/)**Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi*26 citations*
12. **[Generating Feedback for English Foreign Language Exercises ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0513/)**Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy et al.*25 citations*
13. **[Towards Single Word Lexical Complexity Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0508/)**David Alfter, Elena Volodina*25 citations*
14. **[Automatic Distractor Suggestion for Multiple-Choice Tests Using Concept Embeddings and Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0548/)**Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva*24 citations*
15. **[NILC at CWI 2018: Exploring Feature Engineering and Feature Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0540/)**Nathan Hartmann, Leandro Borges dos Santos*21 citations*
16. **[Deep Learning Architecture for Complex Word Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0539/)**Dirk De Hertog, Anaïs Tack*19 citations*
17. **[Annotation and Classification of Sentence-level Revision Improvement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0528/)**Tazin Afrin, Diane Litman*18 citations*
18. **[Complex Word Identification: Convolutional Neural Network vs. Feature Engineering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0538/)**Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Jason Angel, Daniel Alejandro Pérez Alvarez et al.*18 citations*
19. **[Predicting misreadings from gaze in children with reading difficulties ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0503/)**Joachim Bingel, Maria Barrett, Sigrid Klerke*18 citations*
20. **[Deep Factorization Machines for Knowledge Tracing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0545/)**Jill-Jênn Vie*16 citations*
21. **[Cross-Lingual Content Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0550/)**Andrea Horbach, Sebastian Stennmanns, Torsten Zesch*14 citations*
22. **[NT2Lex: A CEFR-Graded Lexical Resource for Dutch as a Foreign Language Linked to Open Dutch WordNet ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0514/)**Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet et al.*13 citations*
23. **[UnibucKernel: A kernel-based learning method for complex word identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0519/)**Andrei Butnaru, Radu Tudor Ionescu*12 citations*
24. **[Using Paraphrasing and Memory-Augmented Models to Combat Data Sparsity in Question Interpretation with a Virtual Patient Dialogue System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0502/)**Lifeng Jin, David King, Amad Hussein et al.*12 citations*
25. **[Using exemplar responses for training and evaluating automated speech scoring systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-0501/)**Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, James Bruno et al.*12 citations*

[See all 50 papers in BEA 2018 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2018/papers/)

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

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

1. **[OneStopEnglish corpus: A new corpus for automatic readability assessment and text simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vajjala-2018-onestopenglish-corpus-new-corpus-automatic/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Ivana Lučić*2018 · 191 citations*

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**Sowmya Vajjala**1 work here · 191 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sowmya-vajjala/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Iowa State University** Ames · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/iowa-state-university/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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