Publications
Selected papers grouped by year. For citations and updates, see my Google Scholar profile.
2026
- Enhancing Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Instruction-Tuned LLMs: Automated Assessment of Student Code Comprehension International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education(AIED) 2026
- A Study on How Free Use of LLMs Assists Novices with Code Comprehension Tasks The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.39.1.141647e
2025
- Automated assessment of student self-explanation in code comprehension using pre-trained language models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 39, No. 28, pp. 28996-29003.
- SelfCode 2.0: An Annotated Corpus of Student and Expert Line-by-Line Explanations of Code for Automated Assessment.
- Generative AI for Named Entity Recognition in Low-Resource Language Nepali. arXiv:2503.09822.
2024
- Curating LLM Tuning Data from the FineWeb Dataset for High-fidelity Domain Adaptation. AGU24.
- A Study of LLM Generated Line-by-Line Explanations in the Context of Conversational Program Comprehension Tutoring Systems. European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 64-74), Springer.
2023
- Explaining code examples in introductory programming courses: LLM vs humans. arXiv:2403.05538.
- Automated Assessment of Students' Code Comprehension using LLMs. arXiv:2401.05399.
- The Behavior of Large Language Models When Prompted to Generate Code Explanations. GAIED @ NeurIPS 2023, arXiv.
- Improving Code Comprehension Through Scaffolded Self-explanations. AIED (pp. 478-483), Springer.
- DanfeNER - Named Entity Recognition in Nepali Tweets. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 36(1). DOI: 10.32473/flairs.36.133384.
- SelfCode: An Annotated Corpus and a Model for Automated Assessment of Self-Explanation During Source Code Comprehension. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, 36(1).
2022
- Named Entity Recognition for Nepali: Data Sets and Algorithms. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 35.
- Automated Assessment of Student Self-explanation During Source Code Comprehension. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 35.
- Automatic Question Generation for Scaffolding Self-explanations for Code Comprehension. AIED 2022, Part I, pp. 743-748, Springer.
2021
- Domain model discovery from textbooks for computer programming intelligent tutors. The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 34.
- Prompting for Free Self-Explanations Promotes Better Code Comprehension. Proceedings of the 5th CSEDM Workshop.