YA-TA: Towards Personalized Question-Answering Teaching Assistants using Instructor-Student Dual Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Fusion
<|reference_start|>YA-TA: Towards Personalized Question-Answering Teaching Assistants using Instructor-Student Dual Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Fusion: Engagement between instructors and students plays a crucial role in enhancing students'academic performance. However, instructors often struggle to provide timely and personalized support in large classes. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Virtual Teaching Assistant (VTA) named YA-TA, designed to offer responses to students that are grounded in lectures and are easy to understand. To facilitate YA-TA, we introduce the Dual Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Fusion (DRAKE) framework, which incorporates dual retrieval of instructor and student knowledge and knowledge fusion for tailored response generation. Experiments conducted in real-world classroom settings demonstrate that the DRAKE framework excels in aligning responses with knowledge retrieved from both instructor and student sides. Furthermore, we offer additional extensions of YA-TA, such as a Q&A board and self-practice tools to enhance the overall learning experience. Our video is publicly available.<|reference_end|>
@article{yang2024ya-ta:,
    title={YA-TA: Towards Personalized Question-Answering Teaching Assistants using
  Instructor-Student Dual Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Fusion},
    author={Dongil Yang, Suyeon Lee, Minjin Kim, Jungsoo Won, Namyoung Kim, Dongha
  Lee, Jinyoung Yeo},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00355},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.00355},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}