Selected Talks & Presentations

Invited panelist (2022, May), Understanding the impact of writing assistants on ownership, authenticity, originality, & confidence panel, In2Writing Workshop at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid).

Co-organizer/Presenter (2022, March), Colloquium entitled: Next-generation L2 assessment: Absorbing digitally-mediated interactions into academic L2 assessment of, and for learning at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Pittsburgh, PA, US. (with Geoff La Flair & Alina von Davier).

Keynote Speaker (virtual), National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Natural Language Processing in Assessment Conference, November 1-2, 2021. Talk slides are here.

Invited Speaker (virtual), Natural Language Processing & Assessment, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Linguistics Seminar Series, November 15, 2021.

Invited Panelist (virtual), An Inside View of NLP at Duolingo, Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP) Pre-Workshop Event, November 1, 2021.

Invited Lecturer (virtual), Natural Language Processing & Assessment, Lecture presented to "AI in Education" class, ETH, Zurich, October 28, 2021.

Invited Panelist (virtual), Engagement Session: Using AI to Provide the Next Level of Excellence, ATP Security Summit: Assessment Excellence & Transparency with AI, September 21, 2021.

Invited Panelist (virtual), Career Panel: Linguistics in Applied Research: Public, Private & Nonprofit Organization, Linguistics Society of America: Linguistics Career Launch , July 27, 2021.

Invited Speaker, Extending Automated Writing Evaluation for Integrative Frameworks, Presented at an Invited Panel entitled "Research-based Digital-first Assessments and the Future of Education" (Organizer: Alina von Davier), AIED 2021, June 2021.

Co-organizer (with Mo Zhang), Advancing Digital Instruction and Assessment with Natural Language Processing & Learning Analytics, Coordinated Symposium to be held virtually at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), April 2021.

Jiangang Hao (presenter), Uncovering Patterns of Use in the Writing Mentor® App through Cluster Analysis (with Mengxiao Zhu, Jiangang Hao & Oren Livne), Presented at the Advancing Digital Instruction and Assessment with Natural Language Processing & Learning Analytics, Coordinated Symposium to be held virtually at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), April 2021.

Daniel McCaffrey (Presenter), John Sabatini, Jill Burstein, Kelsey Dreier, & Kietha Biggers, Tensions and Tradeoffs: Responding to Diverse Demands for Evidence - Case Study of an Underpowered, Randomized Control Trial, Society for Research on Education Effectiveness Spring Conference 2019, March 7, 2019, Washington DC.

Invited Speaker, Writing Analytics: Automated Writing Evaluation Feedback to Support Learning, Learning Analytics Research Network (LEARN) Seminar Series, New York University, February 12, 2019.

Invited Speaker, Natural Language Processing for Education: Applications for Reading and Writing Proficiency, The Seventh Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) , University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, November 7, 2018.

Co-organizer (with Dan McCaffrey), What Writing Analytics Can Tell Us About Broader Success Outcomes, Coordinated Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Educational Measurement, April 14, 2018, New York, NY.

Co-presenter (with Norbert Elliot), Writing Mentor: Writing Progress Using Self-Regulated Writing Support, Presented at What Writing Analytics Can Tell Us About Broader Success Outcomes, Coordinated Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Educational Measurement, April 14, 2018, New York, NY.

Keynote Speaker, Automated Writing Evaluation & the Literacy Challenge, Presented at the The 5th International Conference on Writing Analytics, January 12, 2018.

Invited Speaker, NLP & the Literacy Challenge: Supporting Reading and Writing Proficiency, Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Maryland Conference: Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) To Assessment, November 2, 2017.

Presenter, Design and Evaluating a Web-based Application that Generates Instructional Activities from Content Texts to Support English Language Learners, Annual Conference of the Society for Text & Discourse, July 31 – August 2, 2017 (with Sabatini, J., McCaffrey, D., Madnani, N., Biggers, K.and Dreier, K.)

Keynote Speaker, NLP & the Literacy Challenge: Helping Students with Writing Proficiency, and Reading and Language Skills. The Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), University of Umea, Umea, Sweden, November 2016.

Invited Speaker, The Language Muse Activity Palette: NLP-guided Curriculum Support for English Language Learners, Joint workshop on NLP for Computer- Assisted Language Learning & NLP for Language Acquisition, University of Umea, Umea, Sweden, November 2016.

Co-organizer (with Alina von Davier), Fairness and Machine Learning for Educational Practice, Panel at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Educational Measurement, April 9, 2016, Washington, D.C.

Invited Speaker, Automated evaluation of writing: Expanding the body of knowledge for writing in the disciplines, Presented at the Symposium on Linguistic Perspectives on Discipline-Specific Language: Transforming the Teaching & Assessment of STEM Writing, Iowa State University, May 1-2, 2014: http://stemwriting.engl.iastate.edu/activities/symposium/

Invited Speaker, Workshop on Writing and Readability Tools, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, January 31, 2014.

Keynote Speaker, Technology for Second Language Learning , Iowa State University, September 22, 2012, Ames, IA

Keynote Speaker, Automated Essay Evaluation: From NLP Research Through Deployment as a Business, Human Language Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NAACL), May 5, 2004, Boston, MA.