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Cosma, A., Ruseti, S., Radoi, E., & Dascalu, M.

The Strawberry Problem: Emergence of Character-level Understanding in Tokenized Language Models.

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
EMNLP 2025Suzhou, China

Sirbu, I., Popovici, R. A., Caragea, C., Trăușan-Matu, Ș., & Rebedea, T.

MultiMatch: Multihead Consistency Regularization Matching for Semi-Supervised Text Classification.

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
EMNLP 2025Suzhou, China

Dutulescu, A., Ruseti, S., Iorga, D., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.

YMCQ: Reasoning-Enhanced MCQ Generation.

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2025Palermo, Italy

Masala, M., Ilie-Ablachim, D., Dima, A., Corlatescu, D., Zavelca, M.-A., Olaru, O., Terian, S.-M., Terian, A., Leordeanu, M., Velicu, H., Popescu, M., Dascalu, M., & Rebedea, T.

"Vorbești Românește?" A Recipe to Train Powerful Romanian LLMs with English Instructions.

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EMNLP 2024Miami, USA

Cosma, A., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., & Caragea, C.

How Hard is this Test Set? NLI Characterization by Exploiting Training Dynamics.

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
EMNLP 2024Miami, USA

Dutulescu, A., Ruseti, S., Iorga, D., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.

Beyond the Obvious Multi-Choice Options: Introducing a Toolkit for Distractor Generation Enhanced with NLI Filtering.

25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2024Recife, Brazil

Smadu, R.-A., Zaharia, G.-E., Avram, A.-M., Cercel, D.-C., Dascalu, M., & Pop, F.

TA-DA: topic-aware domain adaptation for scientific keyphrase identification and classification

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AAAI 2023Washington DC, USA

Nicula, B., Panaite, M., Arner, T., Balyan, R., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.

Automated Assessment of Comprehension Strategies from Self-explanations Using Transformers and Multi-task Learning.

24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2023Tokyo, Japan

Morris, W., Crossley, S. A., Holmes, L., Ou, C., McNamara, D. S., & Dascalu, M.

Using Large Language Models to Provide Formative Feedback in Intelligent Textbooks.

24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2023Tokyo, Japan

Zaharia, G.-E., Smadu, R.-A., Cercel, D.-C., & Dascalu, M.

Domain Adaptation in Multilingual and Multi-Domain Monolingual Settings for Complex Word Identification.

60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL 2022Dublin, Ireland

Skalicky, S., Bell, N. D., Dascalu, M., & Crossley, S. A.

"A fork is a food stabber": Linguistic creativity in English L1 and L2 speakers.

44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
CogSci 2022Toronto, Canada

Botarleanu, R., Dascalu, M., Allen, L. K., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.

Multitask Summary Scoring with Longformers.

23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2022Durham, UK

Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M.-D., Corlatescu, D.-G., Dascalu, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & McNamara, D. S.

Exploring Dialogism using Language Models.

22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2021Utrecht, Netherlands

Masala, M., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., & Dobre, C.

Extracting and Clustering Main Ideas from Student Feedback using Language Models.

22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2021Utrecht, Netherlands

Corlatescu, D.-G., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.

Automated Model of Comprehension v2.0.

22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2021Utrecht, Netherlands

Botarleanu, R.-M., Dascalu, M., Watanabe, M., McNamara, D. S., & Crossley, S. A.

Multilingual Age of Exposure.

22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2021Utrecht, Netherlands

Nicula, B., Perret, C. A., Dascalu, M., & McNamara, D. S.

Extended Multi-document Cohesion Network Analysis Centered on Comprehension Prediction.

21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2020Online

Neagu, L.-M., Rigaud, E., Travadel, S., Dascalu, M., & Rughinis, R.-V.

Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Psychomotor Training – A Systematic Literature Review.

16th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
ITS 2020Online

Masala, M., Ruseti, S., & Dascalu, M.

RoBERT – A Romanian BERT Model.

28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
COLING 2020Online

Dascalu, M.-D., Ruseti, S., Dascalu, M., McNamara, D. S., & Trausan-Matu, S.

Multi-Document Cohesion Network Analysis: Visualizing Intratextual and Intertextual Links.

21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2020Online

Dascalu, M.-D., Dascalu, M., Ruseti, S., Carabas, M., Trausan-Matu, S., & McNamara, D. S.

Cohesion Network Analysis: Predicting Course Grades and Generating Sociograms for a Romanian Moodle Course.

16th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
ITS 2020Online

Botarleanu, R.-M., Dascalu, M., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.

Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Automated Text Simplification.

21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIED 2020Online