Automated Analysis of Students' Free-text Answers for Computer-Assisted Assessment

Matthieu Hermet 1 Stan Szpakowicz 2 Lise Duquette 3
1 SITE - School of Information Technology and Engineering [Ottawa]
2 Institute of Computer Science [Warszawa]
3 Second Language Institute
Abstract : We present an approach to Computer-Assisted Assessment of free-text material based on symbolic analysis of student input. The theory that underlies this approach arises from previous work on DidaLect, a tutorial system for reading comprehension in French as a Second Language. The theory enables processing of a free-text segment for assessment to operate without precoded reference material. A study based on a small collection of student answers to several types of questions has justified our approach, and helped to define a methodology and design a prototype.
Keywords : computer assisted language learning (CALL) natural language processing (NLP) computer-assisted assessments symbolic analysis
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Matthieu Hermet, Stan Szpakowicz, Lise Duquette. Automated Analysis of Students' Free-text Answers for Computer-Assisted Assessment. The 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2006). April 10-13, 2006. Leuven (Belgium), 2006, Leuven, Belgium. pp.835-845. ⟨hal-00197397⟩

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