Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04680; 10 Feb 94 15:54:39 EST Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa25339; 10 Feb 94 15:54:10 EST Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA27644; Thu, 10 Feb 94 11:41:16 PST Message-Id: <9402101941.AA27644@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: Jill C Burstein (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)) To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Subject: Conference Program - Natural Language Processing Techniques in Assessment and Education Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 11:41:13 -0800 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU ***************************************************** * * * The Educational Testing Service Conference * * on Natural Language Processing Techniques * * and Technology in Assessment and Education * * * ***************************************************** ****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: Linda Roberts Special Advisor on Technology, (U.S. Department of Education) "Technology and Education Reform" 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) 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 Mike 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 for patient care simulations" 5:00 Dinner FEES and ACCOMMODATIONS: The conference will be held at the Chauncey Conference Center on ETS' Princeton campus. Chauncey Conference Center has rooms for conference guests who choose to stay overnight. The price of the conference varies depending on the type of accommodations requested. Cost of Conference Proceedings: $20.00 CONFERENCE COSTS: DAY GUESTS: $60.00/day OVERNIGHT GUESTS OPTIONS: Plan A: Arrive for dinner the evening of May 17th and stay through the day of May 19th: (2 Days + 2 Overnights) $450 (single) $340 (twin) Plan B: Arrive the morning of May 18th and stay through the day of May 19th: (2 Days + 1 Overnight) $285 (single) $230 (twin) Plan C: Arrive for dinner the evening of May 17th and stay through the day of May 18th: (1 Day + 1 Overnight) $225 (single) $170 (twin) Plan D: Arrive for dinner the evening of May 18th and stay through the day of May 19th: (1 Day + 1 Overnight) $225 (single) $170 (twin) Prices for DAY GUESTS and OVERNIGHT GUESTS include the following. DAY GUESTS: OVERNIGHT GUESTS: $60.00 includes: $225/single Continental Breakfast $170/twin Lunch --------------------------- Coffee Break Dinner Meeting Overnight Complete Breakfast Dinner ($28.00 extra) Lunch Coffee Break Meeting Registration is limited. Please return Reply Form and address inquiries to Corrine Cohen, Eleanore DeYoung or Jill Burstein at the following addresses: Corrine Cohen Mailstop 16-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton, NJ 08541 phone: (609) 734-1108 Eleanore DeYoung Mailstop 17-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: edeyoung@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5834 Jill Burstein Mailstop 11-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: jburstein@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5823 --------------------->8--cut here--8<-------------------------------------- REGISTRATION REPLY FORM Reply Forms must be received with payment from *overnight guests* by March 15, 1994. (Subject to availability) Reply Forms from *day guests* must be received with payment by April 18, 1994. Name: (Last)___________________ (First)_____________________ Affiliation: Address: Phone: (Business) (Home) Email: FAX: DAY GUEST I will attend for ______ day(s) Amount Enclosed $_________ at $60.00 per day. (If for one day, please specify either May 18 ___ or May 19 ___.) I would like Dinner at $28.00. May 18 $_________ May 19 $_________ OVERNIGHT GUEST Plan A: $_________ Plan B: $_________ Plan C: $_________ Plan D: $_________ I would like a copy of the Proceedings for $20.00 $_________ Total Enclosed $_________ Please make checks payable to the Educational Testing Service. (ETS employees may submit an appoved Project Job Number: PJ#___________) Mail Registration Reply Form and Payment to: Corrine Cohen ETS - 16R Rosedale Road Princeton, New Jersey 08541 U.S.A.