Research Project

Figurative Language in Educational Contexts

Analyze transcripts from course recordings (e.g., YouTube) to identify figurative language such as metaphors and analogies used by instructors when explaining difficult or abstract concepts. Use NLP and LLMs to facilitate identification and classification.

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Seed Project (Unfunded)Unfunded2025–2026SeedActiveOpen for Students

Research Question

Curate a dataset of lecture transcripts with basic metadata (discipline, level, topic)

Approach

  • Curate a dataset of lecture transcripts with basic metadata (discipline, level, topic)
  • Develop a taxonomy of figurative language in instructional contexts (metaphor, analogy, etc.)
  • Prototype LLM-assisted labeling and compare with human annotations for reliability
  • Explore relationships between figurative language and topic difficulty/abstraction