Our Team Won the Best Paper Award at BEA 2026 Shared Task.

A paper co-authored by Wu and Chang received the Best Paper Award in the Shared Task “Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners” at the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), held at ACL 2026 in San Diego.

Adam Nohejl, Xuanxin Wu, Yusuke Ide, Maria Angelica Riera Machin, Yi-Ning Chang, Hitomi Yanaka. Sakura at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: What Makes Vocabulary Difficult? In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA, Oral)