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Alexander Scarlatos

7 accepted papers

2025

Interpretable Mnemonic Generation for Kanji Learning via Expectation-Maximization

EMNLP 2025

Learning Japanese vocabulary is a challenge for learners from Roman alphabet backgrounds due to script differences. Japanese combines syllabaries like hiragana with kanji, which are logographic characters of Chinese origin. Kanji are also complicated due to their complexity and volume. Keyword mnemo

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction

EMNLP 2025

Item (question) difficulties play a crucial role in educational assessments, enabling accurate and efficient assessment of student abilities and personalization to maximize learning outcomes. Traditionally, estimating item difficulties can be costly, requiring real students to respond to items, foll

2024

Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords

ICML 2024poster

Jamming requires coordination, anticipation, and collaborative creativity between musicians. Current generative models of music produce expressive output but are not able to generate in an online manner, meaning simultaneously with other musicians (human or otherwise). We propose ReaLchords, an onli…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

DiVERT: Distractor Generation with Variational Errors Represented as Text for Math Multiple-choice Questions

EMNLP 2024main

High-quality distractors are crucial to both the assessment and pedagogical value of multiple-choice questions (MCQs), where manually crafting ones that anticipate knowledge deficiencies or misconceptions among real students is difficult. Meanwhile, automated distractor generation, even with the hel…

2024

Exploring Automated Distractor Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions via Large Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable format in assessments and practices. One of the most important aspects of MCQs is the distractors, i.e., incorrect options that are designed to target common…

2023

Tree-Based Representation and Generation of Natural and Mathematical Language

ACL 2023long

Mathematical language in scientific communications and educational scenarios is important yet relatively understudied compared to natural languages. Recent works on mathematical language focus either on representing stand-alone mathematical expressions, especially in their natural tree format, or ma…