Search Results for author: Nigel Fernandez

Found 5 papers, 4 papers with code

SyllabusQA: A Course Logistics Question Answering Dataset

no code implementations3 Mar 2024 Nigel Fernandez, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan

Automated teaching assistants and chatbots have significant potential to reduce the workload of human instructors, especially for logistics-related question answering, which is important to students yet repetitive for instructors.

Language Modelling Large Language Model +2

Improving Reading Comprehension Question Generation with Data Augmentation and Overgenerate-and-rank

1 code implementation15 Jun 2023 Nischal Ashok Kumar, Nigel Fernandez, Zichao Wang, Andrew Lan

Reading comprehension is a crucial skill in many aspects of education, including language learning, cognitive development, and fostering early literacy skills in children.

Data Augmentation Question Generation +2

Automated Scoring for Reading Comprehension via In-context BERT Tuning

1 code implementation19 May 2022 Nigel Fernandez, Aritra Ghosh, Naiming Liu, Zichao Wang, Benoît Choffin, Richard Baraniuk, Andrew Lan

Our approach, in-context BERT fine-tuning, produces a single shared scoring model for all items with a carefully-designed input structure to provide contextual information on each item.

Reading Comprehension

Synthesizing Tasks for Block-based Programming

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Umair Z. Ahmed, Maria Christakis, Aleksandr Efremov, Nigel Fernandez, Ahana Ghosh, Abhik Roychoudhury, Adish Singla

Our task synthesis algorithm operates by first mutating code $\rm C^{in}$ to obtain a set of codes $\{\rm C^{out}\}$.

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