Papers by Alison Robey
A SMART Mnemonic Sounds like “Glue Tonic”: Mixing LLMs with Student Feedback to Make Mnemonic Learning Stick (2024.emnlp-main)
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Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Alexander Hoyle, Alison Robey, Shi Feng, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Jordan Boyd-Graber
| Challenge: | a new study shows that mnemonics are not effective at matching student learning to a standardized learning model. |
| Approach: | They build a keyword mnemonic generator that finds mnemonics students favor in a flashcard app . they use expressed and observed preferences to find out what students think is helpful . |
| Outcome: | The proposed mnemonics outperform existing models in keyword mnemonics . the human writer outperformed both models in terms of keyword simplicity and explanation quality . |