Closing the Gap: Automated Distractor Generation in Japanese Language Testing
Recent advances in natural language processing have increased interest in automatic question generation, particularly in education (e.g., math, biology, law, medicine, and languages) due to its efficiency in assessing comprehension.
Tim Andersson, Pablo Picazo-Sanchez
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Cloze Test and Multiple Choice Test for Reading Comprehension.
The objectives of this study are to analyze about the different and similar of multiple choice and cloze test in reading comprehension, and about the perception toward the multiple choice and cloze test among students that influence reading comprehension. This study used descriptive qualitative method.
Erlangga Akbar Medyazarefsi +2 more
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The Relationship between Translation Tests and Reading Comprehension: A Case of Iranian University Students [PDF]
The present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. To achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of ...
Mansoor Tavakoli +2 more
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Reading in a second language (L2) is a complex process that incorporates linguistic knowledge and literacy abilities, as well as strategic competence to approach different types of reading tasks depending on reading goals.
Rurik Tywoniw
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Late Positive Potentials as an Index of "Desirably Difficult" Learning Processes Engaged During Language Comprehension: ERP Evidence From Studies of Domain Knowledge. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Electrophysiological studies of language comprehension have primarily examined the kind of information that comes to mind, and when, as people process words and build message‐level understanding. However, less is known about the factors that allow people to commit the message‐level information to memory for future use.
Troyer M, Kutas M, Federmeier KD.
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Distractor Analysis and Selection for Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Second-Language Learners [PDF]
We consider the problem of automatically suggesting distractors for multiple-choice cloze questions designed for second-language learners. We describe the creation of a dataset including collecting manual annotations for distractor selection. We assess the relationship between the choices of the annotators and features based on distractors and the ...
Lingyu Gao +2 more
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EduQG: A Multi-Format Multiple-Choice Dataset for the Educational Domain
Natural language processing technology has made significant progress in recent years, fuelled by increasingly powerful general language models. This has also inspired a sizeable body of work targeted specifically towards the educational domain, where the
Amir Hadifar +4 more
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The Role of Vocabulary and Syntax in EFL Reading Comprehension among Iranian Graduate Students: Evaluation of Two Causal Models [PDF]
Inability to read in one’s language is now too difficult to get along with as there is an increasing hidden inclination by the human beings toward the written language.
Mohsen Shirazizadeh
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Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference [PDF]
We propose a hypothesis only baseline for diagnosing Natural Language Inference (NLI). Especially when an NLI dataset assumes inference is occurring based purely on the relationship between a context and a hypothesis, it follows that assessing entailment
Haldar, Aparajita +4 more
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: This study focuses on developing a prototype of an assessment program on reading comprehension based on computerized dynamic assessment. The reading skills to be measure include identifying topic, main idea, the detail of the text, logical inference ...
Putri Ismayana +2 more
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