  Natural Language Processing offers new insights into language data across
almost all disciplines and domains, and allows us to corroborate and/or
challenge existing knowledge. The primary hurdles to widening participation in
and use of these new research tools are, first, a lack of coding skills in
students across K-16, and in the population at large, and second, a lack of
knowledge of how NLP-methods can be used to answer questions of disciplinary
interest outside of linguistics and/or computer science. To broaden
participation in NLP and improve NLP-literacy, we introduced a new tool
web-based tool called Natural Language Processing 4 All (NLP4All). The intended
purpose of NLP4All is to help teachers facilitate learning with and about NLP,
by providing easy-to-use interfaces to NLP-methods, data, and analyses, making
it possible for non- and novice-programmers to learn NLP concepts
interactively.
