AIED '25 and EDM '25

I once again co-organized the HEXED workshop at the EDM conference taking place in Palermo.

Then, I presented two papers at the co-located AIED conference. The first one introduces many of the thoughts and ideas I had/have while working towards my PhD in a structured way and details why I believe causal thinking is very advantageous in Machine Learning (and, in particular, in the application area of education).

The second one I presented because my colleague, Thilo, with whom I had the pleasure to work on the paper, could not make it to the conference. It presents a survey of how papers introducing educational chaatbots handle problematic, out-of-fomain user questions.