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# BEA 2023 — accepted papers

BEA 2023 is the 2023 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in Toronto, Canada, July 2023 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 65 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.

📍 Toronto, [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/) · 🗓 July 2023

[**65** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2023/#works) · [**130** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2023/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Evaluating Reading Comprehension Exercises Generated by LLMs: A Showcase of ChatGPT in Education Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.52/)**Changrong Xiao, Sean Xin Xu, Kunpeng Zhang et al.*130 citations*
2. **[Rating Short L2 Essays on the CEFR Scale with GPT-4 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.49/)**Kevin P. Yancey, Geoffrey Laflair, Anthony Verardi et al.*91 citations*
3. **[Automated evaluation of written discourse coherence using GPT-4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naismith-2023-automated-evaluation-written-discourse-coherence/)**Ben Naismith, Phoebe Mulcaire, Jill Burstein*75 citations · our summary*
4. **[Is ChatGPT a Good Teacher Coach? Measuring Zero-Shot Performance For Scoring and Providing Actionable Insights on Classroom Instruction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.53/)**Rose Wang, Dorottya Demszky*30 citations*
5. **[The NCTE Transcripts: A Dataset of Elementary Math Classroom Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.44/)**Dorottya Demszky, Heather Hill*27 citations*
6. **[Generating Better Items for Cognitive Assessments Using Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.34/)**Antonio Laverghetta Jr., John Licato*26 citations*
7. **[Exploring Effectiveness of GPT-3 in Grammatical Error Correction: A Study on Performance and Controllability in Prompt-Based Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.18/)**Mengsay Loem, Masahiro Kaneko, Sho Takase et al.*23 citations*
8. **[Socratic Questioning of Novice Debuggers: A Benchmark Dataset and Preliminary Evaluations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.57/)**Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu, Ryan Teehan et al.*23 citations*
9. **[Beyond Black Box AI generated Plagiarism Detection: From Sentence to Document Level ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.58/)**Ali Quidwai, Chunhui Li, Parijat Dube*21 citations*
10. **[Reviewriter: AI-Generated Instructions For Peer Review Writing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.5/)**Xiaotian Su, Thiemo Wambsganss, Roman Rietsche et al.*18 citations*

## All accepted papers (65)

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

1. **[Evaluating Reading Comprehension Exercises Generated by LLMs: A Showcase of ChatGPT in Education Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.52/)**Changrong Xiao, Sean Xin Xu, Kunpeng Zhang et al.*130 citations*
2. **[Rating Short L2 Essays on the CEFR Scale with GPT-4 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.49/)**Kevin P. Yancey, Geoffrey Laflair, Anthony Verardi et al.*91 citations*
3. **[Automated evaluation of written discourse coherence using GPT-4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naismith-2023-automated-evaluation-written-discourse-coherence/)**Ben Naismith, Phoebe Mulcaire, Jill Burstein*75 citations · our summary*
4. **[Is ChatGPT a Good Teacher Coach? Measuring Zero-Shot Performance For Scoring and Providing Actionable Insights on Classroom Instruction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.53/)**Rose Wang, Dorottya Demszky*30 citations*
5. **[The NCTE Transcripts: A Dataset of Elementary Math Classroom Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.44/)**Dorottya Demszky, Heather Hill*27 citations*
6. **[Generating Better Items for Cognitive Assessments Using Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.34/)**Antonio Laverghetta Jr., John Licato*26 citations*
7. **[Exploring Effectiveness of GPT-3 in Grammatical Error Correction: A Study on Performance and Controllability in Prompt-Based Methods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.18/)**Mengsay Loem, Masahiro Kaneko, Sho Takase et al.*23 citations*
8. **[Socratic Questioning of Novice Debuggers: A Benchmark Dataset and Preliminary Evaluations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.57/)**Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu, Ryan Teehan et al.*23 citations*
9. **[Beyond Black Box AI generated Plagiarism Detection: From Sentence to Document Level ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.58/)**Ali Quidwai, Chunhui Li, Parijat Dube*21 citations*
10. **[Reviewriter: AI-Generated Instructions For Peer Review Writing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.5/)**Xiaotian Su, Thiemo Wambsganss, Roman Rietsche et al.*18 citations*
11. **[Difficulty-Controllable Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension using Item Response Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.10/)**Masaki Uto, Yuto Tomikawa, Ayaka Suzuki*17 citations*
12. **[The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.64/)**Anaïs Tack, Ekaterina Kochmar, Zheng Yuan et al.*17 citations*
13. **[ChatBack: Investigating Methods of Providing Grammatical Error Feedback in a GUI-based Language Learning Chatbot ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.7/)**Kai-Hui Liang, Sam Davidson, Xun Yuan et al.*16 citations*
14. **[Automatically Generated Summaries of Video Lectures May Enhance Students' Learning Experience ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.31/)**Hannah Gonzalez, Jiening Li, Helen Jin et al.*13 citations*
15. **[ExASAG: Explainable Framework for Automatic Short Answer Grading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.29/)**Maximilian Tornqvist, Mosleh Mahamud, Erick Mendez Guzman et al.*13 citations*
16. **[SIGHT: A Large Annotated Dataset on Student Insights Gathered from Higher Education Transcripts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.27/)**Rose Wang, Pawan Wirawarn, Noah Goodman et al.*13 citations*
17. **[Analyzing Bias in Large Language Model Solutions for Assisted Writing Feedback Tools: Lessons from the Feedback Prize Competition Series ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.21/)**Perpetual Baffour, Tor Saxberg, Scott Crossley*11 citations*
18. **[Hybrid Models for Sentence Readability Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.37/)**Fengkai Liu, John Lee*11 citations*
19. **[LFTK: Handcrafted Features in Computational Linguistics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.1/)**Bruce W. Lee, Jason Lee*11 citations*
20. **[RETUYT-InCo at BEA 2023 Shared Task: Tuning Open-Source LLMs for Generating Teacher Responses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.61/)**Alexis Baladón, Ignacio Sastre, Luis Chiruzzo et al.*11 citations*
21. **[Towards Extracting and Understanding the Implicit Rubrics of Transformer Based Automatic Essay Scoring Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.20/)**James Fiacco, David Adamson, Carolyn Rose*11 citations*
22. **[ACTA: Short-Answer Grading in High-Stakes Medical Exams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.36/)**King Yiu Suen, Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha et al.*9 citations*
23. **[Enhancing Human Summaries for Question-Answer Generation in Education ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.9/)**Hannah Gonzalez, Liam Dugan, Eleni Miltsakaki et al.*9 citations*
24. **[Enhancing Video-based Learning Using Knowledge Tracing: Personalizing Students' Learning Experience with ORBITS ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.8/)**Shady Shehata, David Santandreu Calonge, Philip Purnell et al.*8 citations*
25. **[Grammatical Error Correction for Sentence-level Assessment in Language Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.41/)**Anisia Katinskaia, Roman Yangarber*7 citations*

[See all 65 papers in BEA 2023 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/2023/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Automated evaluation of written discourse coherence using GPT-4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naismith-2023-automated-evaluation-written-discourse-coherence/) [Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bea/)**Ben Naismith, Phoebe Mulcaire, Jill Burstein*2023 · 120 citations*
2. [**Transformer-based Hebrew NLP models for Short Answer Scoring in Biology**Abigail Gurin Schleifer, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Moriah Ariely, et al.*2023 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schleifer-2023-transformer-based-hebrew-nlp-models/)

## Top topics

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

[Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**Jill Burstein**1 work here · 120 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jill-burstein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Phoebe Mulcaire**1 work here · 120 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phoebe-mulcaire/) · [🧑‍🔬**Beata Beigman Klebanov**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beata-beigman-klebanov/)

## Top institutions

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

[🤝**Educational Testing Service** Princeton · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/educational-testing-service/) · [🎓**Weizmann Institute of Science** Rehovot · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/weizmann-institute-of-science/)

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

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