Opportunities and challenges in neural dialog tutoring

J Macina, N Daheim, L Wang, T Sinha, M Kapur… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Designing dialog tutors has been challenging as it involves modeling the diverse and
complex pedagogical strategies employed by human tutors. Although there have been …

Mathdial: A dialogue tutoring dataset with rich pedagogical properties grounded in math reasoning problems

J Macina, N Daheim, SP Chowdhury, T Sinha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While automatic dialogue tutors hold great potential in making education personalized and
more accessible, research on such systems has been hampered by a lack of sufficiently …

Towards responsible development of generative AI for education: An evaluation-driven approach

I Jurenka, M Kunesch, KR McKee, D Gillick… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A major challenge facing the world is the provision of equitable and universal access to
quality education. Recent advances in generative AI (gen AI) have created excitement about …

A comparative analysis of automatic speech recognition errors in small group classroom discourse

J Cao, A Ganesh, J Cai, R Southwell… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In collaborative learning environments, effective intelligent learning systems need to
accurately analyze and understand the collaborative discourse between learners (ie, group …

Automated feedback on discourse moves: teachers' perceived utility of a professional learning tool

J Jacobs, K Scornavacco, C Clevenger… - … technology research and …, 2024 - Springer
Technological tools that provide automated feedback on classroom teaching afford a unique
opportunity for educators to engage in self-reflection and work towards improvement goals …

Findings of the AmericasNLP 2024 shared task on the creation of educational materials for indigenous languages

L Chiruzzo, P Denisov, A Molina-Villegas… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the results of the first shared task about the creation of educational
materials for three indigenous languages of the Americas. The task proposes to …

Exploring knowledge tracing in tutor-student dialogues

A Scarlatos, A Lan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16490, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of artificial
intelligence (AI)-powered tutoring chatbots, showing promise in providing broad access to …

End-to-end evaluation of a spoken dialogue system for learning basic mathematics

E Okur, S Sahay, RF Alba, L Nachman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03511, 2022 - arxiv.org
The advances in language-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies applied to build
educational applications can present AI for social-good opportunities with a broader positive …

Mind the Gap between the Application Track and the Real World

A Ganesh, J Cao, EM Perkoff, R Southwell… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Recent advances in NLP have led to a rise in inter-disciplinary and application-oriented
research. While this demonstrates the growing real-world impact of the field, research …

High School English Teachers Reflect on Their Talk: A Study of Response to Automated Feedback with the Teacher Talk Tool

S Kelly, G Guner, N Hunkins, SK D'Mello - International Journal of Artificial …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract We present the Teacher Talk Tool, which automatically analyzes classroom audio
and provides formative feedback on key aspects of teachers' classroom discourse (eg, use …