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Robert Belfer
Publications - 11
Citations - 62
Robert Belfer is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intelligent tutoring system & Personalization. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 11 publications receiving 11 citations.
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Automated Personalized Feedback Improves Learning Gains in An Intelligent Tutoring System
TL;DR: The authors proposed a machine learning approach to generate personalized feedback, which takes individual needs of students into account, and demonstrated that the personalized feedback leads to considerable improvement in student learning outcomes and in the subjective evaluation of the feedback.
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A Large-Scale, Open-Domain, Mixed-Interface Dialogue-Based ITS for STEM
Iulian Vlad Serban,Varun Gupta,Ekaterina Kochmar,Dung Do Vu,Robert Belfer,Joelle Pineau,Aaron Courville,Laurent Charlin,Yoshua Bengio +8 more
TL;DR: Although Korbit was designed to be open-domain and highly scalable, A/B testing experiments with real-world students demonstrate that both student learning outcomes and student motivation are substantially improved compared to typical online courses.
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Automated Personalized Feedback Improves Learning Gains in an Intelligent Tutoring System
TL;DR: This work proposes a machine learning approach to generate personalized feedback, which takes individual needs of students into account, and utilizes state-of-the-art machine learning and natural language processing techniques to provide the students with personalized hints, Wikipedia-based explanations, and mathematical hints.
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Automated Data-Driven Generation of Personalized Pedagogical Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
TL;DR: This paper proposes a machine learning approach to generate personalized feedback in an automated way, which takes individual needs of students into account, while alleviating the need of expert intervention and design of hand-crafted rules.
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Deep Discourse Analysis for Generating Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutor Systems
Matt Grenander,Robert Belfer,Ekaterina Kochmar,Iulian Vlad Serban,François St-Hilaire,Jackie Chi Kit Cheung +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore creating automated, personalized feedback in an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) by decomposing student answers using neural discourse segmentation and classification techniques, yielding a relational graph over all discourse units covered by the reference solutions and student answers.