# Leveraging Large Language Models for Concept Graph Recovery and Question Answering in NLP Education

Source: [Leveraging Large Language Models for Concept Graph Recovery and Question Answering in NLP Education](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72421e209131cea55551>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-26T02:22:12.513Z

Authors: Rui Yang, Boming Yang, Sixun Ouyang, Tianwei She, Aosong Feng, Yuang Jiang, Freddy Lecue, Jinghui Lu, Irene Li

Published: 2024-02-22T05:15:27.000Z

## Abstract

In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promise in text-generation tasks. However, their educational applications, particularly for domain-specific queries, remain underexplored. This study investigates LLMs' capabilities in educational scenarios, focusing on concept graph recovery and question-answering (QA). We assess LLMs' zero-shot performance in creating domain-specific concept graphs and introduce TutorQA, a new expert-verified NLP-focused benchmark for scientific graph reasoning and QA. TutorQA consists of five tasks with 500 QA pairs. To tackle TutorQA queries, we present CGLLM, a pipeline integrating concept graphs with LLMs for answering diverse questions. Our results indicate that LLMs' zero-shot concept graph recovery is competitive with supervised methods, showing an average 3% F1 score improvement. In TutorQA tasks, LLMs achieve up to 26% F1 score enhancement. Moreover, human evaluation and analysis show that CGLLM generates answers with more fine-grained concepts.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14293>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14293.pdf>)
