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👋 PETAL Lab

The Pittsburgh EducaTional And Language technology lab
at the University of Pittsburgh focuses on Speech and Natural Language Technology for Educational Applications. Led by Prof. Diane J. Litman, our NLP research currently focuses on argument mining, multi-party dialogue, revision analysis, and summarization, applied to educational applications such as writing evaluation systems, dialogue tutors, and teacher dashboards.

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Norah Almousa presents at AIME-Con 2026

Our lab member Norah Almousa presented her paper at AIME-Con 2026 in Pittsburgh!

Evaluating Feedback Focus and Pedagogical Adaptivity in LLM Feedback on Student Writing

Oct 6, 2026 1 min read
Norah Almousa presents at AIME-Con 2026
PETAL Lab at AIME-Con, 2026

Petal Lab members attended AIME-Con 2026 in Pittsburgh!

Oct 6, 2026 1 min read
PETAL Lab at AIME-Con, 2026
PETAL Lab Group Dinner

Petal lab members gathered together for the group dinner!

Aug 25, 2026 1 min read
PETAL Lab Group Dinner
Salem completed his PhD Defense! Congratuations!

Mohamed Salem Elaraby successfully defended his dissertation, On The Role of Argumentation in Long-form Abstractive Summarization. See the defense announcement.

Aug 24, 2026 1 min read
Salem completed his PhD Defense! Congratuations!
[June 2026] Tools Competition winner for the Multimodal College-Level Writing and Feedback Dataset

The Multimodal College-Level Writing and Feedback Dataset received a 2026 Tools Competition prize.

Jun 23, 2026 1 min read
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