Search Results for author: Kevin P. Yancey

Found 3 papers, 0 papers with code

Jump-Starting Item Parameters for Adaptive Language Tests

no code implementations EMNLP 2021 Arya D. McCarthy, Kevin P. Yancey, Geoff T. LaFlair, Jesse Egbert, Manqian Liao, Burr Settles

A challenge in designing high-stakes language assessments is calibrating the test item difficulties, either a priori or from limited pilot test data.

Language Acquisition Multi-Task Learning +1

FABRA: French Aggregator-Based Readability Assessment toolkit

no code implementations LREC 2022 Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Xiaoou Wang, Alice Pintard, Anaïs Tack, Kevin P. Yancey, Thomas François

In this paper, we present the FABRA: readability toolkit based on the aggregation of a large number of readability predictor variables.

A Sleeping, Recovering Bandit Algorithm for Optimizing Recurring Notifications

no code implementations Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining 2020 Kevin P. Yancey, Burr Settles

In this paper, we introduce the Recovering Difference Softmax Algorithm to address the particular challenges of this problem domain, and use it to successfully optimize millions of daily reminders for the online language-learning app Duolingo.

Multi-Armed Bandits

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