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Kevin P. Yancey

2 accepted papers

2024

Detecting LLM-Assisted Cheating on Open-Ended Writing Tasks on Language Proficiency Tests

EMNLP 2024industry

The high capability of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to concerns about possible misuse as cheating assistants in open-ended writing tasks in assessments. Although various detecting methods have been proposed, most of them have not been evaluated on or optimized for real-world samples f…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2021

Jump-Starting Item Parameters for Adaptive Language Tests

EMNLP 2021main

A challenge in designing high-stakes language assessments is calibrating the test item difficulties, either a priori or from limited pilot test data. While prior work has addressed ‘cold start’ estimation of item difficulties without piloting, we devise a multi-task generalized linear model with BER…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar