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7 papers

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

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.AI2026

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.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…