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Sim-GAIL: A generative adversarial imitation learning approach of student modelling for intelligent tutoring systems (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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.

Contrastive Learning with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks on Short Text Classification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

INTERACTION: A Generative XAI Framework for Natural Language Inference Explanations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Multilabel Text Classification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Balancing Fined-Tuned Machine Learning Models Between Continuous and Discrete Variables - A Comprehensive Analysis Using Educational Data (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

Fine-grained Main Ideas Extraction and Clustering of Online Course Reviews (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

SimStu-Transformer: A Transformer-Based Approach to Simulating Student Behaviour (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda (2022)
Journal Article

Gamification has been widely used to design better educational systems aiming to increase students’ concentration, motivation, engagement, flow experience, and others positive experiences. With advances in research on gamification in education, over... Read More about Tailored gamification in education: A literature review and future agenda.

Novel Decision Forest Building Techniques by Utilising Correlation Coefficient Methods (2022)
Book Chapter

Decision Forests have attracted the academic community’s interest mainly due to their simplicity and transparency. This paper proposes two novel decision forest building techniques, called Maximal Information Coefficient Forest (MICF) and Pearson’s C... Read More about Novel Decision Forest Building Techniques by Utilising Correlation Coefficient Methods.

AI‐driven user aesthetics preference prediction for UI layouts via deep convolutional neural networks (2022)
Journal Article

Leveraging the power of computational methods, AI can perform effective strategies in intelligent design. Researchers are pushing the boundaries of AI, developing computational systems to solve complex questions. The authors investigate the associati... Read More about AI‐driven user aesthetics preference prediction for UI layouts via deep convolutional neural networks.

Detecting Fine-Grained Emotions on Social Media during Major Disease Outbreaks: Health and Well-being before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A Brief Survey of Deep Learning Approaches for Learning Analytics on MOOCs (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) systems have become prevalent in recent years and draw more attention, a.o., due to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact. However, there is a well-known higher chance of dropout from MOOCs than from conventional off-lin... Read More about A Brief Survey of Deep Learning Approaches for Learning Analytics on MOOCs.

Exploring Bayesian Deep Learning for Urgent Instructor Intervention Need in MOOC Forums (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a popular choice for e-learning thanks to their great flexibility. However, due to large numbers of learners and their diverse backgrounds, it is taxing to offer real-time support. Learners may post the... Read More about Exploring Bayesian Deep Learning for Urgent Instructor Intervention Need in MOOC Forums.

Wide-Scale Automatic Analysis of 20 Years of ITS Research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The analysis of literature within a research domain can provide significant value during preliminary research. While literature reviews may provide an in-depth understanding of current studies within an area, they are limited by the number of studies... Read More about Wide-Scale Automatic Analysis of 20 Years of ITS Research.

Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The classroom environment is a major contributor to the learning process in schools. Young students are affected by different details in their academic progress, be it their own characteristics, their teacher’s or their peers’. The combination of the... Read More about Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students.

Early Predictor for Student Success Based on Behavioural and Demographical Indicators (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the largest distance learning university in the UK, the Open University has more than 250,000 students enrolled, making it also the largest academic institute in the UK. However, many students end up failing or withdrawing from online courses, whi... Read More about Early Predictor for Student Success Based on Behavioural and Demographical Indicators.

A Survey of Collaborative Reinforcement Learning: Interactive Methods and Design Patterns (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recently, methods enabling humans and Artificial Intelligent (AI) agents to collaborate towards improving the efficiency of Reinforcement Learning - also called Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (CRL) - have been receiving increasing attention. In... Read More about A Survey of Collaborative Reinforcement Learning: Interactive Methods and Design Patterns.