@inproceedings{lekshmi-narayanan-etal-2026-llms, title = "Can {LLM}s Replace Semantic Similarity for Scoring Student Code Explanations?", author = "Lekshmi Narayanan, Arun Balajiee and Hassany, Mohammad and Brusilovsky, Peter", editor = "Wilson, Joshua and Ormerod, Christopher and Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference ({AIME}-Con): Full Papers", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States", publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-main.10/", pages = "92--99", ISBN = "979-8-9983004-0-0" }