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most citedPoor Alignment and Steerability of Large Language Models: Evidence from College Admission Essays

1 citations · 2 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Domain-Adapted Retrieval for In-Context Annotation of Pedagogical Dialogue Acts

Jinsook Lee, Kirk Vanacore, Zhuqian Zhou +2

Automated annotation of pedagogical dialogue is a high-stakes task where LLMs often fail without sufficient domain grounding. We present a domain-adapted RAG pipeline for tutoring…

cs.CY2026

The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays

Jinsook Lee, Conrad Borchers, AJ Alvero +2

Large language models (LLMs) have become popular writing tools among students and may expand access to high-quality feedback for students with less access to traditional writing su…

cs.CL2026

LLM Reasoning Predicts When Models Are Right: Evidence from Coding Classroom Discourse

Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kirk Vanacore, Zhuqian Zhou +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to automatically label and analyze educational dialogue at scale, yet current pipelines lack reliable ways to detect when mod…

cs.CL2026

Utility-Preserving De-Identification for Math Tutoring: Investigating Numeric Ambiguity in the MathEd-PII Benchmark Dataset

Zhuqian Zhou, Kirk Vanacore, Bakhtawar Ahtisham +7

Large-scale sharing of dialogue data is key to advancing the science of teaching and learning, yet rigorous de-identification remains a major barrier. In mathematics tutoring trans…

cs.CL2026

Codebook-Injected Dialogue Segmentation for Multi-Utterance Constructs Annotation: LLM-Assisted and Gold-Label-Free Evaluation

Jinsook Lee, Kirk Vanacore, Zhuqian Zhou +3

Dialogue Act (DA) annotation typically treats communicative or pedagogical intent as localized to individual utterances or turns. This leads annotators to agree on the underlying a…

cs.AI2025

AI Annotation Orchestration: Evaluating LLM verifiers to Improve the Quality of LLM Annotations in Learning Analytics

Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kirk Vanacore, Jinsook Lee +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to annotate learning interactions, yet concerns about reliability limit their utility. We test whether verification-oriented orch…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Poor Alignment and Steerability of Large Language Models: Evidence from College Admission Essays

Jinsook Lee, AJ Alvero, Thorsten Joachims +1

People are increasingly using technologies equipped with large language models (LLM) to write texts for formal communication, which raises two important questions at the intersecti…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Algorithms for College Admissions Decision Support: Impacts of Policy Change and Inherent Variability

Jinsook Lee, Emma Harvey, Joyce Zhou +3

Each year, selective American colleges sort through tens of thousands of applications to identify a first-year class that displays both academic merit and diversity. In the 2023-20…

cs.CY2024

The Life Cycle of Large Language Models: A Review of Biases in Education

Jinsook Lee, Yann Hicke, Renzhe Yu +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in educational contexts to provide personalized support to students and teachers. The unprecedented capacity of LLM-based appl…