Klinton Bicknell

Researcher, Duolingo

Joined

July 2019

Names

Klinton Bicknell (Preferred)

Emails

****@duolingo.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Duolingo (duolingo.com)

2018 – Present

Assistant Professor

Northwestern University (northwestern.edu)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Roger P. Levy

2007 – 2011

Expertise

language models

Present

education

Present

Publications

Large Language Model Augmented Exercise Retrieval for Personalized Language Learning
Austin Xu, Will Monroe, Klinton Bicknell
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
AutoIRT: Calibrating Item Response Theory Models with Automated Machine Learning
James Sharpnack, Phoebe Mulcaire, Klinton Bicknell, Geoffrey T. LaFlair, Kevin P. Yancey
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
From Tarzan to Tolkien: Controlling the Language Proficiency Level of LLMs for Content Generation
Ali Malik, Stephen Mayhew, Christopher Piech, Klinton Bicknell
- ACL (Findings) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Large language model augmented exercise retrieval for personalized language learning
Austin Xu, Will Monroe, Klinton Bicknell
- LAK 2024
- Readers: Everyone
BanditCAT and AutoIRT: Machine Learning Approaches to Computerized Adaptive Testing and Item Calibration
James Sharpnack, Kevin Hao, Phoebe Mulcaire, Klinton Bicknell, Geoffrey T. LaFlair, Kevin P. Yancey, Alina A. von Davier
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
From Tarzan to Tolkien: Controlling the Language Proficiency Level of LLMs for Content Generation
Ali Malik, Stephen Mayhew, Chris Piech, Klinton Bicknell
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Fourth Annual Workshop on A/B Testing and Platform-Enabled Learning Research
Steven Ritter, Neil T. Heffernan, Joseph Jay Williams, Derek Lomas, Klinton Bicknell, Jeremy Roschelle, Ben Motz, Danielle S. McNamara, Richard G. Baraniuk, Debshila Basu Mallick, René F. Kizilcec, Ryan Baker, Stephen Fancsali, April Murphy
- L@S 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Third Annual Workshop on A/B Testing and Platform-Enabled Learning Research
Steven Ritter, Neil T. Heffernan, Joseph Jay Williams, Derek Lomas, Ben Motz, Debshila Basu Mallick, Klinton Bicknell, Danielle S. McNamara, René F. Kizilcec, Jeremy Roschelle, Richard G. Baraniuk, Ryan Baker
- L@S 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Methods for Language Learning Assessment at Scale: Duolingo Case Study
Lucy Portnoff, Erin Gustafson, Joseph Rollinson, Klinton Bicknell
- EDM 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Local word statistics affect reading times independently of surprisal
Adam Goodkind, Klinton Bicknell
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

Adam Goodkind
Ali Malik
Alina A. von Davier
April Murphy
Austin Xu
Ben Motz
Bill McDowell
Bozena Pajak
Burr Settles
Chris Brust
Chris Piech
Christopher Piech
Danielle S. McNamara
Debshila Basu Mallick
Derek Lomas
Emily C. Higgins
Erin Gustafson
Gabriel Doyle
Geoffrey T. LaFlair
James Sharpnack
Jeremy Roschelle
Joseph Jay Williams
Joseph Rollinson
Keith Rayner
Kevin Hao

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