📰 BEA 2025 — accepted papers

BEA 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), held in Vienna, Austria, July 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 103 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Vienna, Austria · 🗓 July 2025

Most cited papers

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

1. Advances in Auto-Grading with Large Language Models: A Cross-Disciplinary Survey ↗Tania Amanda Nkoyo Frederick Eneye, Chukwuebuka Fortunate Ijezue, Ahmad Imam Amjad et al.5 citations
2. Down the Cascades of Omethi: Hierarchical Automatic Scoring in Large-Scale Assessments ↗Fabian Zehner, Hyo Jeong Shin, Emily Kerzabi et al.5 citations
3. Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error InjectionChatrine Qwaider, Bashar Alhafni, Kirill Chirkunov et al.5 citations · our summary
4. Adapting LLMs for Minimal-edit Grammatical Error Correction ↗Ryszard Staruch, Filip Gralinski, Daniel Dzienisiewicz4 citations
5. Can LLMs Effectively Simulate Human Learners? Teachers' Insights from Tutoring LLM Students ↗Daria Martynova, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim et al.4 citations
6. Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Real Students' Abilities in Mathematics and Reading Comprehension? ↗KV Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar4 citations
7. Beyond Linear Digital Reading: An LLM-Powered Concept Mapping Approach for Reducing Cognitive Load ↗Junzhi Han, Jinho D. Choi3 citations
8. Findings of the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors ↗Ekaterina Kochmar, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kseniia Petukhova et al.3 citations
9. STAIR-AIG: Optimizing the Automated Item Generation Process through Human-AI Collaboration for Critical Thinking Assessment ↗Euigyum Kim, Seewoo Li, Salah Khalil et al.3 citations
10. Temporalizing Confidence: Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Signal Temporal Logic ↗Zhenjiang Mao, Artem Bisliouk, Rohith Nama et al.3 citations

All accepted papers (103)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Advances in Auto-Grading with Large Language Models: A Cross-Disciplinary Survey ↗Tania Amanda Nkoyo Frederick Eneye, Chukwuebuka Fortunate Ijezue, Ahmad Imam Amjad et al.5 citations
2. Down the Cascades of Omethi: Hierarchical Automatic Scoring in Large-Scale Assessments ↗Fabian Zehner, Hyo Jeong Shin, Emily Kerzabi et al.5 citations
3. Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error InjectionChatrine Qwaider, Bashar Alhafni, Kirill Chirkunov et al.5 citations · our summary
4. Adapting LLMs for Minimal-edit Grammatical Error Correction ↗Ryszard Staruch, Filip Gralinski, Daniel Dzienisiewicz4 citations
5. Can LLMs Effectively Simulate Human Learners? Teachers' Insights from Tutoring LLM Students ↗Daria Martynova, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim et al.4 citations
6. Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Real Students' Abilities in Mathematics and Reading Comprehension? ↗KV Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar4 citations
7. Beyond Linear Digital Reading: An LLM-Powered Concept Mapping Approach for Reducing Cognitive Load ↗Junzhi Han, Jinho D. Choi3 citations
8. Findings of the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors ↗Ekaterina Kochmar, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kseniia Petukhova et al.3 citations
9. STAIR-AIG: Optimizing the Automated Item Generation Process through Human-AI Collaboration for Critical Thinking Assessment ↗Euigyum Kim, Seewoo Li, Salah Khalil et al.3 citations
10. Temporalizing Confidence: Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Signal Temporal Logic ↗Zhenjiang Mao, Artem Bisliouk, Rohith Nama et al.3 citations
11. Analyzing Interview Questions via Bloom's Taxonomy to Enhance the Design Thinking Process ↗Fatemeh Kazemi Vanhari, Christopher Anand, Charles Welch2 citations
12. Are Large Language Models for Education Reliable Across Languages? ↗Vansh Gupta, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Vilém Zouhar et al.2 citations
13. Automatic Generation of Inference Making Questions for Reading Comprehension Assessments ↗Wanjing (Anya) Ma, Michael Flor, Zuowei Wang2 citations
14. Comparing human and LLM proofreading in L2 writing: Impact on lexical and syntactic features ↗Hakyung Sung, Karla Csuros, Min-Chang Sung2 citations
15. From End-Users to Co-Designers: Lessons from Teachers ↗Martina Galletti, Valeria Cesaroni2 citations
16. Investigating Methods for Mapping Learning Objectives to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in Course Descriptions for Higher Education ↗Zahra Kolagar, Frank Zalkow, Alessandra Zarcone2 citations
17. LLM-based post-editing as reference-free GEC evaluation ↗Robert Östling, Murathan Kurfali, Andrew Caines2 citations
18. Large Language Models for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward ↗Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Nico Daheim, Ekaterina Kochmar et al.2 citations
19. Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests ↗Stefan Dascalescu, Marius Dumitran, Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta2 citations
20. Multilingual Grammatical Error Annotation: Combining Language-Agnostic Framework with Language-Specific Flexibility ↗Mengyang Qiu, Tran Minh Nguyen, Zihao Huang et al.2 citations
21. A Bayesian Approach to Inferring Prerequisite Structures and Topic Difficulty in Language Learning ↗Anh-Duc Vu, Jue Hou, Anisia Katinskaia et al.1 citation
22. A Framework for Proficiency-Aligned Grammar Practice in LLM-Based Dialogue Systems ↗Luisa Ribeiro-Flucht, Xiaobin Chen, Detmar Meurers1 citation
23. A Survey on Automated Distractor Evaluation in Multiple-Choice Tasks ↗Luca Benedetto, Shiva Taslimipoor, Paula Buttery1 citation
24. Alignment Drift in CEFR-prompted LLMs for Interactive Spanish Tutoring ↗Mina Almasi, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan1 citation
25. Automated Scoring of Communication Skills in Physician-Patient Interaction: Balancing Performance and Scalability ↗Saed Rezayi, Le An Ha, Yiyun Zhou et al.1 citation

See all 103 papers in BEA 2025 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (4)

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

1. Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error InjectionWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Chatrine Qwaider, Bashar Alhafni, Kirill Chirkunov, et al.2025 · 13 citations
2. Exploiting the English Vocabulary Profile for L2 word-level vocabulary assessment with LLMsWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Stefano Bannò, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales2025 · 8 citations
3. End-to-End Automated Item Generation and Scoring for Adaptive English Writing Assessment with Large Language ModelsWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Kamel Nebhi, Amrita Panesar, Hans Bantilan2025 · 2 citations
4. Using NLI to Identify Potential Collocation Transfer in L2 EnglishWorkshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)Haiyin Yang, Zoey Liu, Stefanie Wulff2025 · 2 citations

🧭 Top topics

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

🖍️Grammatical error correction & learner language (3)English (3)🧮Reasoning (1)Semitic languages (1)🧷Idioms & multiword expressions (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (4)🖥️Computer Science (4)💭Psychology (2)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

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

🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of FloridaGainesville · United States1 work here

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

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