LINGUIST List 5.341

Tue 22 Mar 1994

Confs: Natural language processing in testing

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 * The Educational Testing Service Conference *
 * on Natural Language Processing Techniques *
 * and Technology in Assessment and Education *
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 ****CONFERENCE PROGRAM****

Dates: May 18th - 19th, 1994

Location: Chauncey Conference Center
 Educational Testing Service
 Rosedale Road
 Princeton, New Jersey 08541

Conference Purpose:

ETS is sponsoring this conference to stimulate discussion about
the use of various technologies in education and assessment.
The particular focus of this meeting will be on the uses of
Natural Language Processing Techniques and
Applied Technology in education and assessment.

ETS has been exploring the use of technologies, such as
Natural Language Processing, to facilitate the implementation
of new and innovative items for assessment. This conference will help
to establish a continuing discourse among the Natural Language Processing,
technology, education, and assessment communities.

--MAY 18, 1994 (DAY 1)--

Welcome

8:00 - 8:55 Continental Breakfast and Check-in

9:00 - 9:15 Henry Braun
 (Vice President for Research Management-
 Educational Testing Service)
 "Opening Remarks and Welcome"

9:20 - 9:35 Ernest J. Anastasio
 (Executive Vice President-Educational Testing Service)
 TBA

9:40 - 9:55 Randy Kaplan (Educational Testing Service)
 "Conference Overview"

Session I: Applied Technology in Education and Assessment

10:00 - 10:55 Keynote Speaker: Frank Borchardt
 Duke University and
 Executive Director, CALICO
 "Memorizing or Learning: Predicting Machine
 Intelligence"

11:00 - 11:55 Laura D'Amico (Northwestern University)
 Louis Gomez (Northwestern University)
 Steven McGee (Northwestern University)
 "A Case Study of Student and Teacher Use
 of Projects in a Technology-Supported Distributed
 Learning Environment"

12:00 - 1:20 Lunch

Session II: Natural Language Processing Techniques for Education
and Assessment

1:30 - 2:25 Jacquelynn M. Kud
 (General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
 George R. Krupka
 (General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
 Lisa F. Rau
 (General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
 "Methods for Clustering Short-Answer Responses"

2:30 - 3:25 Karen Kukich (Bellcore)
 "Automatic Word Correction:
 Can computers do it write?"

3:30 - 3:55 Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:55 Linda Suri (Educational Testing Service)
 "Developing Computer Tools for the Assessment and
 Instruction of Deaf Writers"

Roundtable Discussion:

5:00 - 6:00 "Setting an Agenda for Creating Educational
 Technology"
 Panelists: Randy Kaplan (ETS), Jill Burstein (ETS),
 Lisa Rau (GE), Thomas Landauer (Bellcore and
 The University of Colorado),
 Louis Gomez (Northwestern University),
 Karen Kukich (Bellcore), Judith Klavans (Columbia University),
 Frank Borchardt (Duke University and
 Executive Director, CALICO)

6:30 Dinner

--MAY 19, 1994 (DAY 2)--

Session I: Applied Technology in Education and Assessment

8:00 - 8:55 Continental Breakfast and Check-in

9:00 - 9:55 Michael Eleey (University of Pennsylvania)
 "The Smart Textbook"

10:00 - 10:55 Steve Clyman (National Board of Medical Examiners)
 Anna Bersky (National Council on the State Boards
 of Nursing)
 "Processing Examinee Free-Text Entries and
 Authoring Tools for Patient-Care Simulations"

11:00 - 11:55 Randy Kaplan (Educational Testing Service)
 "A Vision of the Future of Assessment"

12:00 - 1:20 Lunch


Session II: Applied Technology and NLP in Education and Assessment

1:30 - 2:25 Melissa Holland (Army Research Institute)
 "Intelligent Tutors for foreign languages:
 What parsers and lexical semantics do to
 help learners and assess learning"

2:30 - 3:25 George Miller (Princeton University)
 "Word-Sense Resolution and Reading Comprehension"

3:30 - 3:55 Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:55 Thomas Landauer
 (Bellcore and The University of Colorado)
 "Latent structure analyses of word knowledge as
 models, measures and methods"

5:00 Dinner

For information about registration and accomodations please contact:

Corrine Cohen
ccohenrosedale.org
(609) 734 - 1108