Bing Jia
2026
MicroC-KT: Modeling Community Effect via Learning Micro-Environment for Evidence-Grounded Explainable Knowledge Tracing
Zhiyi Duan | Zixing Shi | Bing Jia | Qi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhiyi Duan | Zixing Shi | Bing Jia | Qi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Knowledge Tracing (KT) is essential for tracking students’ evolving knowledge states and predicting their future performance. While current graph-based methods focus on exercise-concept relations, they often overlook the inherent group structures among students. Similarly, emerging LLM-based approaches rely on individual histories, lacking the broader context of group references and contrastive evidence. As a result, existing individual-isolation paradigms fail to provide stable predictions and evidence-based explanations. To bridge this gap, we propose Micro-Community Knowledge Tracing (MicroC-KT), a framework that incorporates learning micro-environments to provide social-cognitive anchors for KT. MicroC-KT identifies latent learning communities via hypergraph modeling and generates dual-granular summaries to facilitate community matching and peer retrieval. By extracting contrastive group evidence, the model prompts an LLM to generate both accurate answer predictions and verifiable analysis reports. Experiments on four public datasets demonstrate that MicroC-KT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in predictive performance while providing more reliable and evidence-based explanations.
From Coarse to Fine: A Multi-Granularity Multimodal Framework for Teacher Sentiment Analysis
Zhiyi Duan | Xiangren Wang | Jiangshan Guan | Bing Jia | Qianli Xing
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhiyi Duan | Xiangren Wang | Jiangshan Guan | Bing Jia | Qianli Xing
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Teacher sentiment analysis is pivotal for understanding instructional dynamics, yet it remains challenging because classroom expressions are professionally regulated performances rather than spontaneous outbursts. However, existing approaches typically treat sentiment as a static, monolithic label, failing to capture this structured heterogeneity. To effectively model this complexity, we decompose teacher sentiment into three granularities: coarse-level performativity, medium-level intra-class heterogeneity, and fine-level cross-modal complementarity. Guided by this perspective, we propose CF-TSA, a coarse-to-fine multimodal framework. Specifically, we employ CLS-guided cross-modal attention to recover effective signals from regulated displays (coarse-level), thresholded substyle discovery to identify latent pedagogical styles (medium-level), and substyle-aware contrastive learning to align dynamic multimodal cue compositions (fine-level). Experiments on T-MED and CMU-MOSEI demonstrate that CF-TSA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, validating the effectiveness of the coarse-to-fine perspective and the hierarchical modeling.