4 papers
The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback to Be More Engaging, Effective, and Scalable?
Jennifer Meyer, Olaf Köller, Thorben Jansen +33
With digital learning environments becoming more prevalent, the ease with which generative AI enables the scalable production of real-time, automated feedback holds the potential t…
Grammar Control in Dialogue Response Generation for Language Learning Chatbots
Dominik Glandorf, Peng Cui, Detmar Meurers +1
Chatbots based on large language models offer cheap conversation practice opportunities for language learners. However, they are hard to control for linguistic forms that correspon…
Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning
Haemanth Santhi Ponnusamy, Detmar Meurers
How can a learner systematically prepare for reading a book they are interested in? In this paper,we explore how computational linguistic methods such as distributional semantics,…
Readability-based Sentence Ranking for Evaluating Text Simplification
Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers
We propose a new method for evaluating the readability of simplified sentences through pair-wise ranking. The validity of the method is established through in-corpus and cross-corp…