Papers with Knowing
Revisiting Sample Size Determination in Natural Language Understanding (2023.findings-acl)
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Ernie Chang, Muhammad Hassan Rashid, Pin-Jie Lin, Changsheng Zhao, Vera Demberg, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
| Challenge: | Recent work has sought to reduce the annotation costs through the use of active learning and data sampling. |
| Approach: | They propose to estimate the training sample size needed to achieve a targeted model performance based on small amount of training samples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach predicts model performance within a small margin of mean absolute error (0.9%) with only 10% data. |
CoRE: Condition-based Reasoning for Identifying Outcome Variance in Complex Events (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Identifying implied conditions and examining their influence on an outcome is challenging. |
| Approach: | They combine annotations from goals and states to examine the influence of conditions . they examine open and closed LLMs of varying sizes and intent-alignment on reasoning tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are more cautious in less constrained situations when conditions are used to replace missing context. |
From Knowing to Teaching: Scaffolding Pedagogical Decisions for LLM Agent (2026.acl-long)
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Yucheng Wang, Shen Yang, Jifan Yu, Haoxuan Li, Joy Jia Yin Lim, Daniel Zhang-Li, Huiqin Liu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Bin Xu
| Challenge: | Large language models produce content lacking pedagogical depth when asked to generate lessons . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that allows teachers to select content according to pedagogical intent and sequence topics so foundations precede applications. |
| Outcome: | The framework achieves 67.8% win rate in human evaluation and 79.6% in LLM-based evaluation against eight baselines. |