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# BEA 2019 — accepted papers

BEA 2019 is the 2019 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in Florence, Italy, August 2019 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 52 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Florence, [Italy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/italy/) · 🗓 August 2019

[**52** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2019/#works) · [**582** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2019/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[The BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bryant-2019-bea-2019-shared-task-grammatical/)**Christopher Bryant, Mariano Felice, Øistein E. Andersen et al.*285 citations · our summary*
2. **[Neural Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Unsupervised Pre-training on Synthetic Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4427/)**Roman Grundkiewicz, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Kenneth Heafield*173 citations*
3. **[A Neural Grammatical Error Correction System Built On Better Pre-training and Sequential Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4423/)**Yo Joong Choe, Jiyeon Ham, Kyubyong Park et al.*86 citations*
4. **[Automated Essay Scoring with Discourse-Aware Neural Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4450/)**Farah Nadeem, Huy Nguyen, Yang Liu et al.*79 citations*
5. **[The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4401/)**Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Klaus Zechner*62 citations*
6. **[Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4446/)**Elijah Mayfield, Michael Madaio, Shrimai Prabhumoye et al.*58 citations*
7. **[Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple Choice Questions in a High-stakes Medical Exam ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4402/)**Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva, Peter Baldwin et al.*47 citations*
8. **[Context is Key: Grammatical Error Detection with Contextual Word Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4410/)**Samuel Bell, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei*36 citations*
9. **[Learning to combine Grammatical Error Corrections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4414/)**Yoav Kantor, Yoav Katz, Leshem Choshen et al.*36 citations*
10. **[Analytic Score Prediction and Justification Identification in Automated Short Answer Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4433/)**Tomoya Mizumoto, Hiroki Ouchi, Yoriko Isobe et al.*35 citations*

## All accepted papers (52)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[The BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bryant-2019-bea-2019-shared-task-grammatical/)**Christopher Bryant, Mariano Felice, Øistein E. Andersen et al.*285 citations · our summary*
2. **[Neural Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Unsupervised Pre-training on Synthetic Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4427/)**Roman Grundkiewicz, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Kenneth Heafield*173 citations*
3. **[A Neural Grammatical Error Correction System Built On Better Pre-training and Sequential Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4423/)**Yo Joong Choe, Jiyeon Ham, Kyubyong Park et al.*86 citations*
4. **[Automated Essay Scoring with Discourse-Aware Neural Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4450/)**Farah Nadeem, Huy Nguyen, Yang Liu et al.*79 citations*
5. **[The many dimensions of algorithmic fairness in educational applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4401/)**Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Klaus Zechner*62 citations*
6. **[Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4446/)**Elijah Mayfield, Michael Madaio, Shrimai Prabhumoye et al.*58 citations*
7. **[Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple Choice Questions in a High-stakes Medical Exam ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4402/)**Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva, Peter Baldwin et al.*47 citations*
8. **[Context is Key: Grammatical Error Detection with Contextual Word Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4410/)**Samuel Bell, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei*36 citations*
9. **[Learning to combine Grammatical Error Corrections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4414/)**Yoav Kantor, Yoav Katz, Leshem Choshen et al.*36 citations*
10. **[Analytic Score Prediction and Justification Identification in Automated Short Answer Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4433/)**Tomoya Mizumoto, Hiroki Ouchi, Yoriko Isobe et al.*35 citations*
11. **[The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Transformer Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alikaniotis-2019-unreasonable-effectiveness-transformer-language-models/)**Dimitris Alikaniotis, Vipul Raheja*35 citations · our summary*
12. **[A Benchmark Corpus of English Misspellings and a Minimally-supervised Model for Spelling Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4407/)**Michael Flor, Michael Fried, Alla Rozovskaya*25 citations*
13. **[Regression or classification? Automated Essay Scoring for Norwegian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4409/)**Stig Johan Berggren, Taraka Rama, Lilja Øvrelid*25 citations*
14. **[Linguistically-Driven Strategy for Concept Prerequisites Learning on Italian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4430/)**Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Franco Alberto Cardillo et al.*24 citations*
15. **[Analyzing Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy in Academic Language Development of German across Elementary and Secondary School ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4440/)**Zarah Weiss, Detmar Meurers*23 citations*
16. **[Erroneous data generation for Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4415/)**Shuyao Xu, Jiehao Zhang, Jin Chen et al.*22 citations*
17. **[How to account for mispellings: Quantifying the benefit of character representations in neural content scoring models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4411/)**Brian Riordan, Michael Flor, Robert Pugh*21 citations*
18. **[The AIP-Tohoku System at the BEA-2019 Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4418/)**Hiroki Asano, Masato Mita, Tomoya Mizumoto et al.*19 citations*
19. **[Multi-headed Architecture Based on BERT for Grammatical Errors Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4426/)**Bohdan Didenko, Julia Shaptala*17 citations*
20. **[On Understanding the Relation between Expert Annotations of Text Readability and Target Reader Comprehension ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4437/)**Sowmya Vajjala, Ivana Lucic*17 citations*
21. **[Neural and FST-based approaches to grammatical error correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4424/)**Zheng Yuan, Felix Stahlberg, Marek Rei et al.*16 citations*
22. **[TMU Transformer System Using BERT for Re-ranking at BEA 2019 Grammatical Error Correction on Restricted Track ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4422/)**Masahiro Kaneko, Kengo Hotate, Satoru Katsumata et al.*15 citations*
23. **[Computationally Modeling the Impact of Task-Appropriate Language Complexity and Accuracy on Human Grading of German Essays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4404/)**Zarah Weiss, Anja Riemenschneider, Pauline Schröter et al.*13 citations*
24. **[Modeling language learning using specialized Elo rating ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4451/)**Jue Hou, Maximilian W. Koppatz, José María Hoya Quecedo et al.*12 citations*
25. **[Curio SmartChat : A system for Natural Language Question Answering for Self-Paced K-12 Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4435/)**Srikrishna Raamadhurai, Ryan Baker, Vikraman Poduval*11 citations*

[See all 52 papers in BEA 2019 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2019/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. [**The BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction**Christopher Bryant, Mariano Felice, Øistein E. Andersen, et al.*2019 · 530 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bryant-2019-bea-2019-shared-task-grammatical/)
2. **[The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Transformer Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alikaniotis-2019-unreasonable-effectiveness-transformer-language-models/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Dimitris Alikaniotis, Vipul Raheja*2019 · 52 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Grammatical error correction & learner language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Christopher Bryant**1 work here · 530 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-bryant/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mariano Felice**1 work here · 530 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mariano-felice/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ted Briscoe**1 work here · 530 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-briscoe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dimitris Alikaniotis**1 work here · 52 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dimitris-alikaniotis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vipul Raheja**1 work here · 52 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vipul-raheja/)

## 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/) · [🎓**International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad** Hyderabad · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/international-institute-of-information-technology-hyderabad/)

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

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