Papers by Zid Mancenido
Measuring Conversational Uptake: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions (2021.acl-long)
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Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Zid Mancenido, Julie Cohen, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto
| Challenge: | Despite extensive research showing the positive impact of uptake on student learning and achievement, there is little evidence that it is effective in teaching. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for computationally measuring uptake by releasing a dataset of student-teacher exchanges extracted from US math classroom transcripts annotated for uptake . they formalize uptake as pointwise Jensen-Shannon Divergence (pJSD) and conduct a linguistically-motivated comparison of different unsupervised measures. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline measures in identifying uptake phenomena like question answering and reformulation. |