Outputs (44)

Sim-GAIL: A generative adversarial imitation learning approach of student modelling for intelligent tutoring systems (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Shi, L., Wang, J., Cristea, A. I., & Zhou, Y. (2023). Sim-GAIL: A generative adversarial imitation learning approach of student modelling for intelligent tutoring systems. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(34), 24369-24388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08989-w

The continuous application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in online education has led to significant progress, especially in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), online courses and learning management systems (LMS). An impor... Read More about Sim-GAIL: A generative adversarial imitation learning approach of student modelling for intelligent tutoring systems.

Language as a latent sequence: Deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation (2023)
Journal Article
Yu, J., Cristea, A. I., Harit, A., Sun, Z., Aduragba, O. T., Shi, L., & Al Moubayed, N. (2023). Language as a latent sequence: Deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation. AI open, 4, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiopen.2023.05.001

This paper explores deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation, where the missing target pair for unlabelled data is modelled as a latent paraphrase sequence. We present a novel unsupervised model named variational sequence... Read More about Language as a latent sequence: Deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation.

PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nagai, T., Klem, S., Kayama, M., Asuke, T., Meccawy, M., Wang, J., Cristea, A. I., Stewart, C. D., & Shi, L. (2023, May). PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art. Presented at 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Kuwait

The STEAM approach in education has been gaining increasing popularity over the last decade. This is due to its potential in enhancing students' learning, when teaching arts and scientific disciplines together. This paper introduces the PICA-PICA con... Read More about PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art.

Is Unimodal Bias Always Bad for Visual Question Answering? A Medical Domain Study with Dynamic Attention (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sun, Z., Harit, A., Cristea, A. I., Yu, J., Al Moubayed, N., & Shi, L. (2022, December). Is Unimodal Bias Always Bad for Visual Question Answering? A Medical Domain Study with Dynamic Attention. Presented at IEEE Big Data, Osaka, Japan

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is to answer medical questions based on clinical images provided. This field is still in its infancy due to the complexity of the trio formed of questions, multimodal features and expert knowledge. In this... Read More about Is Unimodal Bias Always Bad for Visual Question Answering? A Medical Domain Study with Dynamic Attention.

Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Multilabel Text Classification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, J., Cristea, A. I., Harit, A., Sun, Z., Aduragba, O. T., Shi, L., & Al Moubayed, N. (2022, July). Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Multilabel Text Classification. Presented at 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Padova, Italy

Despite rapid advances of modern artificial intelligence (AI), there is a growing concern regarding its capacity to be explainable, transparent, and accountable. One crucial step towards such AI systems involves reliable and efficient uncertainty qua... Read More about Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Multilabel Text Classification.

INTERACTION: A Generative XAI Framework for Natural Language Inference Explanations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, J., Cristea, A. I., Harit, A., Sun, Z., Aduragba, O. T., Shi, L., & Al Moubayed, N. (2022, July). INTERACTION: A Generative XAI Framework for Natural Language Inference Explanations. Presented at 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Padova, Italy

XAI with natural language processing aims to produce human-readable explanations as evidence for AI decisionmaking, which addresses explainability and transparency. However, from an HCI perspective, the current approaches only focus on delivering a s... Read More about INTERACTION: A Generative XAI Framework for Natural Language Inference Explanations.

Contrastive Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks on Short Text Classification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sun, Z., Harit, A., Cristea, A. I., Yu, J., Shi, L., & Al Moubayed, N. (2022, July). Contrastive Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks on Short Text Classification. Presented at 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Padova, Italy

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted extensive interest in text classification tasks due to their expected superior performance in representation learning. However, most existing studies adopted the same semi-supervised learning setting as the... Read More about Contrastive Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks on Short Text Classification.

Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews (2022)
Book Chapter
Xiao, C., Shi, L., Cristea, A., Li, Z., & Pan, Z. (2022). Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews. In M. Rodrigo, N. Matsuda, A. Cristea, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education (294-306). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_24

Online course reviews have been an essential way in which course providers could get insights into students’ perceptions about the course quality, especially in the context of massive open online courses (MOOCs), where it is hard for both parties to... Read More about Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews.

Balancing Fined-Tuned Machine Learning Models Between Continuous and Discrete Variables - A Comprehensive Analysis Using Educational Data (2022)
Book Chapter
Drousiotis, E., Pentaliotis, P., Shi, L., & Cristea, A. I. (2022). Balancing Fined-Tuned Machine Learning Models Between Continuous and Discrete Variables - A Comprehensive Analysis Using Educational Data. In Artificial Intelligence in Education (256-268). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_21

Along with the exponential increase of students enrolling in MOOCs [26] arises the problem of a high student dropout rate. Researchers worldwide are interested in predicting whether students will drop out of MOOCs to prevent it. This study explores a... Read More about Balancing Fined-Tuned Machine Learning Models Between Continuous and Discrete Variables - A Comprehensive Analysis Using Educational Data.

SimStu-Transformer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Simulating Student Behaviour (2022)
Book Chapter
Li, Z., Shi, L., Cristea, A., Zhou, Y., Xiao, C., & Pan, Z. (2022). SimStu-Transformer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Simulating Student Behaviour. In Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium (348-351). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_67

Lacking behavioural data between students and an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) has been an obstacle for improving its personalisation capability. One feasible solution is to train “sim students”, who simulate real students’ behaviour in the ITS.... Read More about SimStu-Transformer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Simulating Student Behaviour.