Conversations as a Source for Teaching Scientific Concepts at Different Education Levels

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10475v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:33:36 GMT
• Title: Conversations as a Source for Teaching Scientific Concepts at Different Education Levels
• Authors: Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a novel source for facilitating conversational teaching of scientific concepts at various difficulty levels. We analyse this data source in various ways to show that it offers a diverse array of examples that can be used to generate contextually appropriate responses.
• Score: 22.315652391541285
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Open conversations are one of the most engaging forms of teaching. However, creating those conversations in educational software is a complex endeavor, especially if we want to address the needs of different audiences. While language models hold great promise for educational applications, there are substantial challenges in training them to engage in meaningful and effective conversational teaching, especially when considering the diverse needs of various audiences. No official data sets exist for this task to facilitate the training of language models for conversational teaching, considering the diverse needs of various audiences. This paper presents a novel source for facilitating conversational teaching of scientific concepts at various difficulty levels (from preschooler to expert), namely dialogues taken from video transcripts. We analyse this data source in various ways to show that it offers a diverse array of examples that can be used to generate contextually appropriate and natural responses to scientific topics for specific target audiences. It is a freely available valuable resource for training and evaluating conversation models, encompassing organically occurring dialogues. While the raw data is available online, we provide additional metadata for conversational analysis of dialogues at each level in all available videos.

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