Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research in Education

  • Authors:
  • Jill Burstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA 08540

  • Venue:
  • CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper discusses emerging opportunities for natural language processing (NLP) researchers in the development of educational applications for writing, reading and content knowledge acquisition. A brief historical perspective is provided, and existing and emerging technologies are described in the context of research related to content, syntax, and discourse analyses. Two systems, e-rater® and Text Adaptor , are discussed as illustrations of NLP-driven technology. The development of each system is described, as well as how continued development provides significant opportunities for NLP research.