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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…