Lucile Favero

PhD Student

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Lucile Favero is a PhD student at ELLIS, specializing in artificial intelligence applied to education. She holds a master’s degree in Mathematics and an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of Geneva. Currently, Lucile is pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante), Dr. Tanja Kaser (EPFL), and Dr. Juan Antonio Pérez Ortiz (University of Alicante). Her research focuses on integrating the Socratic method into the design and development of educational chatbots, aiming to foster critical thinking and enhance learning outcomes. Her work combines advanced techniques in natural language processing, argument mining, machine learning, and pedagogical principles, exploring new forms of interaction between humans and intelligent systems. Lucile is particularly interested in how language models can be adapted to promote critical thinking instead of cognitive atrophy.

Research interests: critical thinking, argument mining, human modeling, HCI, socratic questioning

Project: Maike: a Socratic chatbot

Website: https://lucilefavero.github.io/

Publications in association with ELLIS Alicante

2025

07/31
Vienna, AT
Favero, L. A., Frases, D., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2025). ELLIS Alicante at CQs-Gen 2025: Winning the critical thinking questions shared task: LLM-based question generation and selection. 12th Workshop on Argument Mining, co-located with ACL 2025.
03/03
Philadelphia, US
Favero, L. A., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2025). Argument Mining in Education: Exploring the Potential of Open-source Small LLMs for Argument Classification and Assessment. AAAI2025 AI for Education - Tools, Opportunities, and Risks in the Generative AI Era.
02/20
Favero, L. A., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2025). Leveraging Small LLMs for Argument Mining in Education: Argument Component Identification, Classification, and Assessment. arXiv:2502.14389.

2024

10/19
Santiago de Compostela, ES
Favero, L. A., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2024). Enhancing Critical Thinking in Education by means of a Socratic Chatbot. International Workshop on AI in Education and Educational Research, ECAI 2024 workshop.
02/21
Favero, L. A., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2024). Towards Student-Centric AI-Supported Learning: Teaching Chatbots to Ask the Right Questions. Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans, AAAI Bridge Program.