no code implementations • 2 Apr 2024 • Zekun Wu, Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Adriano Soares Koshiyama
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly increased their presence in human-facing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2023 • Yuxiang Qiu, Karim Djemili, Denis Elezi, Aaneel Shalman, María Pérez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor, Sahan Bulathwela
With the advancement and utility of Artificial Intelligence (AI), personalising education to a global population could be a cornerstone of new educational systems in the future.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2023 • Wu Zekun, Sahan Bulathwela, Adriano Soares Koshiyama
In summary, our work establishes a robust and practical framework for auditing and evaluating the stereotypic bias in LLM.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2023 • Yuxiang Qiu, Karim Djemili, Denis Elezi, Aaneel Shalman, María Pérez-Ortiz, Sahan Bulathwela
This work describes the TrueLearn Python library, which contains a family of online learning Bayesian models for building educational (or more generally, informational) recommendation systems.
1 code implementation • 13 May 2023 • Sahan Bulathwela, Hamze Muse, Emine Yilmaz
We develop \textit{EduQG}, a novel educational question generation model built by adapting a large language model.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2022 • Hamze Muse, Sahan Bulathwela, Emine Yilmaz
With the boom of digital educational materials and scalable e-learning systems, the potential for realising AI-assisted personalised learning has skyrocketed.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2022 • Tabish Ahmed, Sahan Bulathwela
Extracting useful information from the user history to clearly understand informational needs is a crucial feature of a proactive information retrieval system.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2022 • Sahan Bulathwela, Meghana Verma, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
This work explores how population-based engagement prediction can address cold-start at scale in large learning resource collections.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2022 • Maria Perez-Ortiz, Sahan Bulathwela, Claire Dormann, Meghana Verma, Stefan Kreitmayer, Richard Noss, John Shawe-Taylor, Yvonne Rogers, Emine Yilmaz
The user questionnaire revealed that participants found the Content Flow Bar helpful and enjoyable for finding relevant information in videos.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2021 • Sahan Bulathwela, María Pérez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
In informational recommenders, many challenges arise from the need to handle the semantic and hierarchical structure between knowledge areas.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2021 • Sahan Bulathwela, María Pérez-Ortiz, Catherine Holloway, John Shawe-Taylor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education has been said to have the potential for building more personalised curricula, as well as democratising education worldwide and creating a Renaissance of new ways of teaching and learning.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2021 • Maria Perez-Ortiz, Erik Novak, Sahan Bulathwela, John Shawe-Taylor
Artifical Intelligence (AI) in Education has great potential for building more personalised curricula, as well as democratising education worldwide and creating a Renaissance of new ways of teaching and learning.
no code implementations • 3 Sep 2021 • Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Erik Novak, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
One of the main challenges in advancing this research direction is the scarcity of large, publicly available datasets.
1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2020 • Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
This paper introduces VLEngagement, a novel dataset that consists of content-based and video-specific features extracted from publicly available scientific video lectures and several metrics related to user engagement.
1 code implementation • 31 May 2020 • Sahan Bulathwela, María Pérez-Ortiz, Aldo Lipani, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
The explosion of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the recent years creates the demand for scalable, automatic approaches to process and evaluate OERs, with the end goal of identifying and recommending the most suitable educational materials for learners.
1 code implementation • 3 Dec 2019 • Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
One of the most ambitious use cases of computer-assisted learning is to build a recommendation system for lifelong learning.
1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2019 • Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz, John Shawe-Taylor
The recent advances in computer-assisted learning systems and the availability of open educational resources today promise a pathway to providing cost-efficient, high-quality education to large masses of learners.