4 papers
Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection
Christopher Davis, Christopher Bryant, Andrew Caines +2
Targeted studies testing knowledge of subject-verb agreement (SVA) indicate that pre-trained language models encode syntactic information. We assert that if models robustly encode…
Constructing Open Cloze Tests Using Generation and Discrimination Capabilities of Transformers
Mariano Felice, Shiva Taslimipoor, Paula Buttery
This paper presents the first multi-objective transformer model for constructing open cloze tests that exploits generation and discrimination capabilities to improve performance. O…
The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus
Andrew Caines, Helen Yannakoudakis, Helena Edmondson +4
The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus (TSCC) is a collection of written conversations captured during one-to-one lessons between teachers and learners of English. The lessons took pl…
Adaptive Forgetting Curves for Spaced Repetition Language Learning
Ahmed Zaidi, Andrew Caines, Russell Moore +2
The forgetting curve has been extensively explored by psychologists, educationalists and cognitive scientists alike. In the context of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, modelling the f…