arXiv AI

E2Vec: Feature Embedding with Temporal Information for Analyzing Student Actions in E-Book Systems

arXiv:2407. 13053v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital textbook (e-book) systems record student interactions with textbooks as a sequence of events called EventStream data.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Cite or Decline: A Strict Course-Grounded Chatbot for STEM Lecture Videos

The paper presents a semester-long deployment of the VideoPoints platform, featuring a retrieval‑augmented chatbot that answers questions using only the active course’s lecture materials and provides clickable, timestamped citations. Across 833 interactions, 70.5% of messages included citations, no cross‑course references were made, and the bot declined to answer when no lecture evidence matched. The study also shows that the system improves correct‑lecture retrieval by 6.3 percentage points over dense‑only retrieval on the EduVidQA benchmark.

By S M Masrur Ahmed, Jaspal Subhlok