Andrew Lan
Andrew Lan has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2025, most of them on Question answering, Dialogue systems; often with Alexander Scarlatos, Naiming Liu, Nischal Ashok Kumar.
OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 24 · 158 works · 2,136 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 68 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3514
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Fields, topics and concepts
📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksInformation Systems · 4 worksComputer Science Applications · 3 worksMedicine · 1 workHealth Informatics · 1 work
🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Dialogue systems · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 work
Works by year
2020s
Papers
- Context-Aware Attentive Knowledge Tracing (2020 · 601 citations)
Knowledge tracing (KT) forecasts how a learner will answer upcoming assessment questions from their earlier answers. - Improving the Validity of Automatically Generated Feedback via Reinforcement Learning (2024 · 47 citations)
LLM-written feedback on students' wrong answers in math must be mathematically sound and must also follow good tutoring practice. - Training LLM-Based Tutors to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Dialogues (2025 · 38 citations)
LLM tutors are usually built by prompting or fine-tuning models to imitate good teaching practice. They are rarely optimized for whether students actually learn. The authors propose training a small open-source model, Llama 3.1 8B, to produce tutor turns that make a correct student reply more likely while still… - Improving Socratic Question Generation using Data Augmentation and Preference Optimization (2024 · 16 citations)
Socratic tutoring helps learners fix their own mistakes through a sequence of guiding questions instead of handing over answers.
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Venues
- Lecture notes in computer science ×2: Lecture notes in computer science 2025, Lecture notes in computer science 2024
- ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD): KDD 2020
- Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA): BEA 2024
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