Iulian Serban

According to our database, Iulian Serban authored at least 33 papers between 2015 and 2024.

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2024

How Teachers Can Use Large Language Models and Bloom's Taxonomy to Create Educational Quizzes.

Sabina Elkins, Ekaterina Kochmar, Jackie C. K. Cheung, Iulian Serban

Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023

How Useful Are Educational Questions Generated by Large Language Models?

Sabina Elkins, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Serban, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky, 2023

2022

A New Era: Intelligent Tutoring Systems Will Transform Online Learning for Millions.

François St-Hilaire, Dung Do Vu, Antoine Frau, Nathan Burns, Farid Faraji, Joseph Potochny, Stephane Robert, Arnaud Roussel, Selene Zheng, Taylor Glazier, Junfel Vincent Romano, Robert Belfer, Muhammad Shayan, Ariella Smofsky, Tommy Delarosbil, Seulmin Ahn, Simon Eden-Walker, Kritika Sony, Ansona Onyi Ching, Sabina Elkins, Anush Stepanyan, Adela Matajova, Victor Chen, Hossein Sahraei, Robert Larson, Nadia Markova, Andrew Barkett, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar

CoRR, 2022

Automated Data-Driven Generation of Personalized Pedagogical Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Ekaterina Kochmar, Dung Do Vu, Robert Belfer, Varun Gupta, Iulian Vlad Serban, Joelle Pineau

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2022

Few-Shot Question Generation for Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Devang Kulshreshtha, Muhammad Shayan, Robert Belfer, Siva Reddy, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar

Proceedings of the PAIS 2022, 2022

Question Personalization in an Intelligent Tutoring System.

Sabina Elkins, Ekaterina Kochmar, Robert Belfer, Iulian Serban, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners' and Doctoral Consortium, 2022

Raising Student Completion Rates with Adaptive Curriculum and Contextual Bandits.

Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Vlad Serban

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 23rd International Conference, 2022

2021

Back-Training excels Self-Training at Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Question Generation and Passage Retrieval.

Devang Kulshreshtha, Robert Belfer, Iulian Vlad Serban, Siva Reddy

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

A Comparative Study of Learning Outcomes for Online Learning Platforms.

François St-Hilaire, Nathan Burns, Robert Belfer, Muhammad Shayan, Ariella Smofsky, Dung Do Vu, Antoine Frau, Joseph Potochny, Farid Faraji, Vincent Pavero, Neroli Ko, Ansona Onyi Ching, Sabina Elkins, Anush Stepanyan, Adela Matajova, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 22nd International Conference, 2021

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

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020

The Bottleneck Simulator: A Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Michael Pieper, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio

J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2020

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 C. Courville, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 21st International Conference, 2020

Automated Personalized Feedback Improves Learning Gains in An Intelligent Tutoring System.

Ekaterina Kochmar, Dung Do Vu, Robert Belfer, Varun Gupta, Iulian Vlad Serban, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 21st International Conference, 2020

2019

The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2).

Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander H. Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason D. Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston

CoRR, 2019

2018

A Survey of Available Corpora For Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems: The Journal Version.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Peter Henderson, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau

Dialogue Discourse, 2018

The RLLChatbot: a solution to the ConvAI challenge.

Nicolas Gontier, Koustuv Sinha, Peter Henderson, Iulian Serban, Michael D. Noseworthy, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau

CoRR, 2018

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot (Short Version).

Iulian Vlad Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain, Saizheng Zhang, Zhouhan Lin, Sandeep Subramanian, Taesup Kim, Michael Pieper, Sarath Chandar, Nan Rosemary Ke, Sai Rajeswar, Alexandre de Brébisson, Jose M. R. Sotelo, Dendi Suhubdy, Vincent Michalski, Alexandre Nguyen, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio

CoRR, 2018

2017

Training End-to-End Dialogue Systems with the Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus.

Ryan Thomas Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Vlad Serban, Laurent Charlin, Chia-Wei Liu, Joelle Pineau

Dialogue Discourse, 2017

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain, Saizheng Zhang, Zhouhan Lin, Sandeep Subramanian, Taesup Kim, Michael Pieper, Sarath Chandar, Nan Rosemary Ke, Sai Mudumba, Alexandre de Brébisson, Jose Sotelo, Dendi Suhubdy, Vincent Michalski, Alexandre Nguyen, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio

CoRR, 2017

Towards an automatic Turing test: Learning to evaluate dialogue responses.

Ryan Lowe, Michael D. Noseworthy, Iulian Vlad Serban, Nicolas Angelard-Gontier, Yoshua Bengio, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2017

Piecewise Latent Variables for Neural Variational Text Processing.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alexander Ororbia, Joelle Pineau, Aaron C. Courville

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing, 2017

A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Ryan Lowe, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau, Aaron C. Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

Multiresolution Recurrent Neural Networks: An Application to Dialogue Response Generation.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Tim Klinger, Gerald Tesauro, Kartik Talamadupula, Bowen Zhou, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron C. Courville

Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2016

Multi-modal Variational Encoder-Decoders.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Joelle Pineau, Aaron C. Courville

CoRR, 2016

Generative Deep Neural Networks for Dialogue: A Short Review.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau

CoRR, 2016

Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions.

Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain, Amjad Almahairi, Christof Angermüller, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Ballas, Frédéric Bastien, Justin Bayer, Anatoly Belikov, Alexander Belopolsky, Yoshua Bengio, Arnaud Bergeron, James Bergstra, Valentin Bisson, Josh Bleecher Snyder, Nicolas Bouchard, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Xavier Bouthillier, Alexandre de Brébisson, Olivier Breuleux, Pierre Luc Carrier, Kyunghyun Cho, Jan Chorowski, Paul F. Christiano, Tim Cooijmans, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Myriam Côté, Aaron C. Courville, Yann N. Dauphin, Olivier Delalleau, Julien Demouth, Guillaume Desjardins, Sander Dieleman, Laurent Dinh, Melanie Ducoffe, Vincent Dumoulin, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Dumitru Erhan, Ziye Fan, Orhan Firat, Mathieu Germain, Xavier Glorot, Ian J. Goodfellow, Matthew Graham, Çaglar Gülçehre, Philippe Hamel, Iban Harlouchet, Jean-Philippe Heng, Balázs Hidasi, Sina Honari, Arjun Jain, Sébastien Jean, Kai Jia, Mikhail Korobov, Vivek Kulkarni, Alex Lamb, Pascal Lamblin, Eric Larsen, César Laurent, Sean Lee, Simon Lefrançois, Simon Lemieux, Nicholas Léonard, Zhouhan Lin, Jesse A. Livezey, Cory Lorenz, Jeremiah Lowin, Qianli Ma, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Olivier Mastropietro, Robert McGibbon, Roland Memisevic, Bart van Merriënboer, Vincent Michalski, Mehdi Mirza, Alberto Orlandi, Christopher Joseph Pal, Razvan Pascanu, Mohammad Pezeshki, Colin Raffel, Daniel Renshaw, Matthew Rocklin, Adriana Romero, Markus Roth, Peter Sadowski, John Salvatier, François Savard, Jan Schlüter, John Schulman, Gabriel Schwartz, Iulian Vlad Serban, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Samira Shabanian, Étienne Simon, Sigurd Spieckermann, S. Ramana Subramanyam, Jakub Sygnowski, Jérémie Tanguay, Gijs van Tulder, Joseph P. Turian, Sebastian Urban, Pascal Vincent, Francesco Visin, Harm de Vries, David Warde-Farley, Dustin J. Webb, Matthew Willson, Kelvin Xu, Lijun Xue, Li Yao, Saizheng Zhang, Ying Zhang

CoRR, 2016

On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification.

Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael D. Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference, 2016

How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation.

Chia-Wei Liu, Ryan Lowe, Iulian Serban, Michael D. Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Generating Factoid Questions With Recurrent Neural Networks: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alberto García-Durán, Çaglar Gülçehre, Sungjin Ahn, Sarath Chandar, Aaron C. Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron C. Courville, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015

Hierarchical Neural Network Generative Models for Movie Dialogues.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron C. Courville, Joelle Pineau

CoRR, 2015

A Survey of Available Corpora for Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems.

Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Peter Henderson, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau

CoRR, 2015

The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems.

Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, Joelle Pineau

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015