Li Siyan — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Bringing Pedagogy into Focus: Evaluating Virtual Teaching Assistants’ Question-Answering in Asynchronous Learning Environments

Li Siyan, Zhen Xu, Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram, Xuanming Zhang, Renzhe Yu, Zhou Yu

EMNLP 2025

Virtual Teaching Assistants (VTAs) can reduce the workload of teaching teams in Asynchronous Learning Environments (ALEs) where timely, personalized support is often limited. As VTA systems grow more capable, rigorous and pedagogically sound evaluation becomes essential. Existing assessments often r

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2024

EDEN: Empathetic Dialogues for English Learning

Li Siyan, Teresa Shao, Zhou Yu, Julia Hirschberg

EMNLP 2024finding

Dialogue systems have been used as conversation partners in English learning, but few have studied whether these systems improve learning outcomes. Student passion and perseverance, or grit, has been associated with language learning success. Recent work establishes that as students perceive their E…

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