AIED 2024 workshop | Recife (Brazil), Hybrid
Dr. Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
Dr. Victoria Yaneva is Manager, NLP Research at NBME (Philadelphia, USA), where she lead a team working on improving educational assessment in medicine using NLP and behavioural data. Prior to that she was a post-doctoral researcher and PhD student at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, working on automated approaches towards improving text and web accessibility for people with autism.
(please note that the schedule might still be subject to change)
(09:00 - 09:20) Registration
(09:20 - 09:45) Introductions
(09:45 - 10:30) Invited speaker: Prof. Zachary Pardos
(10:30 - 11:00) Coffee break
(11:00 - 13:00) Paper presentations
(11:00 - 11:20 | in-person): Masaki Uto, Yuto Tomikawa and Ayaka Suzuki. Question Difficulty Prediction Based on Virtual Test-Takers and Item Response Theory [paper]
(11:20 - 11:40 | in-person): Jeffrey Dittel, Michelle Clark, Rachel Van Campenhout and Benny Johnson. Exploring Large Language Models for Evaluating Automatically Generated Questions [paper]
(11:40 - 12:00 | remote): Samah Alkhuzaey, Floriana Grasso, Terry Payne and Valentina Tamma. Towards Automatic Evaluation of Questions Generated from Ontologies [paper]
(12:00 - 12:20 | remote): Anna Winklerova. Difficulty of Items – Predictions on Linguistic Features [paper]
(12:20 - 12:40 | remote): Ella Anghel, Yu Wang, Madhumitha Gopalakrishnan, Pranali Mansukhani and Yoav Bergner. Can LLMs evaluate items measuring collaborative problem solving? It depends on who you ask [paper]
(12:40 - 13:00 | remote): Ali Al-Zawqari, Mohamed Ahmed and Gerd Vandersteen. Evaluation with Language Models in Non-formal Education: Understanding Student's Persuasion Style in Competitive Debating [paper]
(13:00 - 14:00) Lunch break
(14:00 - 14:45) Invited speaker: Dr. Victoria Yaneva
(14:45 - 15:25) Paper presentations
(14:45 - 15:05 | in person): Rositsa V Ivanova and Siegfried Handschuh. Evaluating LLMs' Performance At Automatic Short-Answer Grading [paper]
(15:05 - 15:25 | remote): Takumi Shibata and Masaki Uto. Enhancing Cross-prompt Automated Essay Scoring by Selecting Training Data Based on Reinforcement Learning [paper]
(15:25 - 16:00) Coffe break
(16:00 - 16:40) Paper presentations
(16:00 - 16:20 | remote): Jesus-Angel del-Hoyo-Gabaldon, Eva Garcia-Lopez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Mary-Ellen Wiltrout, Jessica Sandland and Ana Bell. Large Language Models for Learner Assistance in Massive Open Online Courses: Challenges, Tools, and Approaches [paper]
(16:20 - 16:40 | in-person): Laís Pisetta Van Vossen, Isabela Gasparini, Elaine H. T. Oliveira, Lukas Menzel, Sebastian Gombert, Knut Neumann and Hendrik Drachsler. Conceptual Map Assessment Through Structure Classification [paper]
(16:40 - 17:30) Discussions and closing remarks