TY - GEN
T1 - ChatbotLLM - Training Educational Chatbots on the Materials Uploaded by Teachers
AU - De Silva, Supun
AU - Chang, Maiga
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This paper presents an IEEE Northern Canada Section's Capstone Project Award winning research project, ChatbotLLM, a system to train educational chatbots on the materials uploaded by teachers. Using ChatbotLLM, teachers can create a course, choose the desired configuration options, upload the materials, and start to train an educational chatbot on the uploaded course materials. Once a chatbot is finished training, both teachers and students can test and interact with the chatbot with their browsers as well as access it through any other available client applications. This research aims to overcome shortcomings of educational technologies using generative AI, mainly bias and hallucinations. Currently an evaluation is underway using a university level course at UK to understand and compare user perceptions towards responses provided by ChatbotLLM chatbots and other generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
AB - This paper presents an IEEE Northern Canada Section's Capstone Project Award winning research project, ChatbotLLM, a system to train educational chatbots on the materials uploaded by teachers. Using ChatbotLLM, teachers can create a course, choose the desired configuration options, upload the materials, and start to train an educational chatbot on the uploaded course materials. Once a chatbot is finished training, both teachers and students can test and interact with the chatbot with their browsers as well as access it through any other available client applications. This research aims to overcome shortcomings of educational technologies using generative AI, mainly bias and hallucinations. Currently an evaluation is underway using a university level course at UK to understand and compare user perceptions towards responses provided by ChatbotLLM chatbots and other generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.
KW - Cosine Similarity
KW - Extractive Text Summarization
KW - Generative AI
KW - Large Language Models
KW - Natural Language Processing
KW - Optical Character Recognition
KW - Rephrasing
KW - Web Scraping
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105010698300
U2 - 10.1109/ICIET66371.2025.11046253
DO - 10.1109/ICIET66371.2025.11046253
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105010698300
T3 - 2025 13th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2025
SP - 39
EP - 43
BT - 2025 13th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2025
T2 - 13th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2025
Y2 - 18 April 2025 through 20 April 2025
ER -