Papers by Megha Srivastava
Question Generation for Adaptive Education (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems depend on a pool of hand-made questions, limiting how fine-grained and open-ended they can be in adapting to individual students. |
| Approach: | They propose to fine-tune pre-trained language models for deep knowledge tracing to generate reversetranslation questions conditioned on the student and target difficulty. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate well-calibrated language translation questions for second language learners from a real online education platform. |
The Psychology of Falsehood: A Human-Centric Survey of Misinformation Detection (2025.emnlp-main)
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Arghodeep Nandi, Megha Sundriyal, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Jikai Sun, Emily K. Vraga, Jaideep Srivastava, Tanmoy Chakraborty
| Challenge: | a survey examines the interplay between factual accuracy and cognitive biases . misinformation is more than just the existence of incorrect information, it also entails complex relationships between the information and the entities that consume it. |
| Approach: | They examine the interplay between traditional fact-checking and psychological concepts such as cognitive biases, social dynamics, and emotional responses. |
| Outcome: | The findings highlight limitations of current methods and identify opportunities for improvement . they also outline future research directions to create more robust frameworks . |