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A computer-aided environment for generating multiple-choice test items

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2006

RUSLAN MITKOV ,
LE AN HA  and
NIKIFOROS KARAMANIS
RUSLAN MITKOV
Affiliation:
Research Group in Computational Linguistics, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK e-mail: r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, l.a.ha@wlv.ac.uk, n.karamanis@wlv.ac.uk
LE AN HA
Affiliation:
Research Group in Computational Linguistics, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK e-mail: r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, l.a.ha@wlv.ac.uk, n.karamanis@wlv.ac.uk
NIKIFOROS KARAMANIS
Affiliation:
Research Group in Computational Linguistics, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK e-mail: r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, l.a.ha@wlv.ac.uk, n.karamanis@wlv.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper describes a novel computer-aided procedure for generating multiple-choice test items from electronic documents. In addition to employing various Natural Language Processing techniques, including shallow parsing, automatic term extraction, sentence transformation and computing of semantic distance, the system makes use of language resources such as corpora and ontologies. It identifies important concepts in the text and generates questions about these concepts as well as multiple-choice distractors, offering the user the option to post-edit the test items by means of a user-friendly interface. In assisting test developers to produce items in a fast and expedient manner without compromising quality, the tool saves both time and production costs.

Type
Papers
Information
Natural Language Engineering , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 177 - 194
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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