Socratic Questioning of Novice Debuggers: A Benchmark Dataset and Preliminary Evaluations
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Erfan Al-Hossami, Razvan Bunescu, Ryan Teehan, Laurel Powell, Khyati Mahajan, Mohsen Dorodchi. Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023). 2023.
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- Authors
- Al-Hossami, E., Bunescu, R., Teehan, R., Powell, L., Mahajan, K., & Dorodchi, M.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- New York University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 709-726
- OpenAlex
- W4385572569
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5
- FWCI
- 6.95
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- U.S. Air Force
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- Socratic questioning, novice programmers, debugging, benchmark dataset, programming education, question generation
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