Search Results for author: Robert Belfer

Found 10 papers, 1 papers with code

Raising Student Completion Rates with Adaptive Curriculum and Contextual Bandits

no code implementations28 Jul 2022 Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Vlad Serban

We present an adaptive learning Intelligent Tutoring System, which uses model-based reinforcement learning in the form of contextual bandits to assign learning activities to students.

Model-based Reinforcement Learning Multi-Armed Bandits +2

Few-shot Question Generation for Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

no code implementations8 Jun 2022 Devang Kulshreshtha, Muhammad Shayan, Robert Belfer, Siva Reddy, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar

Our personalized feedback can pinpoint correct and incorrect or missing phrases in student answers as well as guide them towards correct answer by asking a question in natural language.

Generative Question Answering Question Generation +3

Question Personalization in an Intelligent Tutoring System

no code implementations25 May 2022 Sabina Elkins, Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Serban, Jackie C. K. Cheung

This paper investigates personalization in the field of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS).

Deep Discourse Analysis for Generating Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutor Systems

no code implementations13 Mar 2021 Matt Grenander, Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian V. Serban, François St-Hilaire, Jackie C. K. Cheung

We test our method in a dialogue-based ITS and demonstrate that our approach results in high-quality feedback and significantly improved student learning gains.

Discourse Segmentation Misconceptions

Automated Personalized Feedback Improves Learning Gains in an Intelligent Tutoring System

no code implementations5 May 2020 Ekaterina Kochmar, Dung Do Vu, Robert Belfer, Varun Gupta, Iulian Vlad Serban, Joelle Pineau

Our model is used in Korbit, a large-scale dialogue-based ITS with thousands of students launched in 2019, and we demonstrate that the personalized feedback leads to considerable improvement in student learning outcomes and in the subjective evaluation of the feedback.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

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