Search Results for author: Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context

no code implementations EMNLP 2016 Elliot Schumacher, Maxine Eskenazi, Gwen Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

The problem of accurately predicting relative reading difficulty across a set of sentences arises in a number of important natural language applications, such as finding and curating effective usage examples for intelligent language tutoring systems.

Human Perception of Surprise: A User Study

no code implementations16 Jul 2018 Nalin Chhibber, Rohail Syed, Mengqiu Teng, Joslin Goh, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Edith Law

Understanding how to engage users is a critical question in many applications.

Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization

no code implementations NeurIPS 2008 Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user’s original query with additional related terms.

Retrieval

An Attention-Based Model for Predicting Contextual Informativeness and Curriculum Learning Applications

1 code implementation21 Apr 2022 Sungjin Nam, David Jurgens, Gwen Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Second, we show how our model identifies key contextual elements in a sentence that are likely to contribute most to a reader's understanding of the target word.

Informativeness Sentence

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