Xiaoyu Bai


2022

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Argument Similarity Assessment in German for Intelligent Tutoring: Crowdsourced Dataset and First Experiments
Xiaoyu Bai | Manfred Stede
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

NLP technologies such as text similarity assessment, question answering and text classification are increasingly being used to develop intelligent educational applications. The long-term goal of our work is an intelligent tutoring system for German secondary schools, which will support students in a school exercise that requires them to identify arguments in an argumentative source text. The present paper presents our work on a central subtask, viz. the automatic assessment of similarity between a pair of argumentative text snippets in German. In the designated use case, students write out key arguments from a given source text; the tutoring system then evaluates them against a target reference, assessing the similarity level between student work and the reference. We collect a dataset for our similarity assessment task through crowdsourcing as authentic German student data are scarce; we label the collected text pairs with similarity scores on a 5-point scale and run first experiments on the task. We see that a model based on BERT shows promising results, while we also discuss some challenges that we observe.

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Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022)
Robin Schaefer | Xiaoyu Bai | Manfred Stede | Torsten Zesch
Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022)

2017

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LCT-MALTA’s Submission to RepEval 2017 Shared Task
Hoa Trong Vu | Thuong-Hai Pham | Xiaoyu Bai | Marc Tanti | Lonneke van der Plas | Albert Gatt
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP

System using BiLSTM and max pooling. Embedding is enhanced by POS, character and dependency info.