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# BEA 2020 — accepted papers

BEA 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in Seattle, WA, USA \textrightarrow Online, July 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 21 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.

[**21** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2020/#works) · [**157** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2020/#works)**Seattle, WA, USA \textrightarrow Online** where it was held**July 2020** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[GECToR – Grammatical Error Correction: Tag, Not Rewrite ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.16/)**Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Vitaliy Atrasevych, Artem Chernodub et al.*274 citations*
2. **[Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.15/)**Elijah Mayfield, Alan W Black*137 citations*
3. **[Linguistic Features for Readability Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2020-linguistic-features-readability-assessment/)**Tovly Deutsch, Masoud Jasbi, Stuart Shieber*66 citations · our summary*
4. **[Can Neural Networks Automatically Score Essay Traits? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.8/)**Sandeep Mathias, Pushpak Bhattacharyya*41 citations*
5. **[An empirical investigation of neural methods for content scoring of science explanations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.13/)**Brian Riordan, Sarah Bichler, Allison Bradford et al.*27 citations*
6. **[Predicting the Difficulty and Response Time of Multiple Choice Questions Using Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.20/)**Kang Xue, Victoria Yaneva, Christopher Runyon et al.*27 citations*
7. **[CIMA: A Large Open Access Dialogue Dataset for Tutoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.5/)**Katherine Stasaski, Kimberly Kao, Marti A. Hearst*24 citations*
8. **[A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data Generation Methods for Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.21/)**Max White, Alla Rozovskaya*20 citations*
9. **[Using PRMSE to evaluate automated scoring systems in the presence of label noise ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.2/)**Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill et al.*20 citations*
10. **[Becoming Linguistically Mature: Modeling English and German Children's Writing Development Across School Grades](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kerz-2020-becoming-linguistically-mature-modeling-english/)**Elma Kerz, Yu Qiao, Daniel Wiechmann et al.*16 citations · our summary*

## All accepted papers (21)

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

1. **[GECToR – Grammatical Error Correction: Tag, Not Rewrite ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.16/)**Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Vitaliy Atrasevych, Artem Chernodub et al.*274 citations*
2. **[Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.15/)**Elijah Mayfield, Alan W Black*137 citations*
3. **[Linguistic Features for Readability Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2020-linguistic-features-readability-assessment/)**Tovly Deutsch, Masoud Jasbi, Stuart Shieber*66 citations · our summary*
4. **[Can Neural Networks Automatically Score Essay Traits? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.8/)**Sandeep Mathias, Pushpak Bhattacharyya*41 citations*
5. **[An empirical investigation of neural methods for content scoring of science explanations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.13/)**Brian Riordan, Sarah Bichler, Allison Bradford et al.*27 citations*
6. **[Predicting the Difficulty and Response Time of Multiple Choice Questions Using Transfer Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.20/)**Kang Xue, Victoria Yaneva, Christopher Runyon et al.*27 citations*
7. **[CIMA: A Large Open Access Dialogue Dataset for Tutoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.5/)**Katherine Stasaski, Kimberly Kao, Marti A. Hearst*24 citations*
8. **[A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data Generation Methods for Grammatical Error Correction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.21/)**Max White, Alla Rozovskaya*20 citations*
9. **[Using PRMSE to evaluate automated scoring systems in the presence of label noise ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.2/)**Anastassia Loukina, Nitin Madnani, Aoife Cahill et al.*20 citations*
10. **[Becoming Linguistically Mature: Modeling English and German Children's Writing Development Across School Grades](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kerz-2020-becoming-linguistically-mature-modeling-english/)**Elma Kerz, Yu Qiao, Daniel Wiechmann et al.*16 citations · our summary*
11. **[Multiple Instance Learning for Content Feedback Localization without Annotation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.3/)**Scott Hellman, William Murray, Adam Wiemerslage et al.*16 citations*
12. **[Annotation and Classification of Evidence and Reasoning Revisions in Argumentative Writing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.7/)**Tazin Afrin, Elaine Lin Wang, Diane Litman et al.*13 citations*
13. **[Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.12/)**Zara Maxwell-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley et al.*11 citations*
14. **[Distractor Analysis and Selection for Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Second-Language Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.10/)**Lingyu Gao, Kevin Gimpel, Arnar Jensson*9 citations*
15. **[Context-based Automated Scoring of Complex Mathematical Responses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.19/)**Aoife Cahill, James H Fife, Brian Riordan et al.*7 citations*
16. **[An Exploratory Study of Argumentative Writing by Young Students: A transformer-based Approach ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.14/)**Debanjan Ghosh, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Yi Song*6 citations*
17. **[Complementary Systems for Off-Topic Spoken Response Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.4/)**Vatsal Raina, Mark Gales, Kate Knill*5 citations*
18. **[Tracking the Evolution of Written Language Competence in L2 Spanish Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.9/)**Alessio Miaschi, Sam Davidson, Dominique Brunato et al.*5 citations*
19. **[Automated Scoring of Clinical Expressive Language Evaluation Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.18/)**Yiyi Wang, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Meysam Asgari et al.*4 citations*
20. **[Interpreting Neural CWI Classifiers' Weights as Vocabulary Size ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.17/)**Yo Ehara*3 citations*
21. **[Assisting Undergraduate Students in Writing Spanish Methodology Sections ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.11/)**Samuel González-López, Steven Bethard, Aurelio Lopez-Lopez*1 citation*

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

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

1. **[Linguistic Features for Readability Assessment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2020-linguistic-features-readability-assessment/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Tovly Deutsch, Masoud Jasbi, Stuart Shieber*2020 · 130 citations*
2. [**Becoming Linguistically Mature: Modeling English and German Children's Writing Development Across School Grades**Elma Kerz, Yu Qiao, Daniel Wiechmann, et al.*2020 · 27 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kerz-2020-becoming-linguistically-mature-modeling-english/)

## Top topics

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

[English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## 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/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Stuart M. Shieber**1 work here · 130 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stuart-m-shieber/) · [🧑‍🔬**Daniel Wiechmann**1 work here · 27 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-wiechmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Elma Kerz**1 work here · 27 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elma-kerz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yu Qiao**1 work here · 27 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-qiao/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**RWTH Aachen University** Aachen · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-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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