Automatic generation of fill‐in‐the‐blank question with corpus‐based distractors for e‐assessment to enhance learning

Knowledge acquisition is the prime objective of a learner from an educational system and evaluating the learner's knowledge is the eventual goal of an examination process. This paper introduces a system which is able to produce fill‐in‐the‐blank questions to test the knowledge of a learner that...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computer applications in engineering education 2019-11, Vol.27 (6), p.1485-1495
Hauptverfasser: Das, Bidyut, Majumder, Mukta, Phadikar, Santanu, Sekh, Arif Ahmed
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Zusammenfassung:Knowledge acquisition is the prime objective of a learner from an educational system and evaluating the learner's knowledge is the eventual goal of an examination process. This paper introduces a system which is able to produce fill‐in‐the‐blank questions to test the knowledge of a learner that he or she has accumulated after reading a course material. The question generation task is subdivided into three modules: sentence selection, answer‐key identification, and question formation along with distractor generation. The sentence is selected using a coarse‐grain part‐of‐speech tagset. The answer‐key is extracted by identifying topic‐word in the sentence and question is formed by omitting this topic‐word from the sentence. This paper also highlights an efficient corpus‐based distractor generation technique to produce multiple‐choice fill‐in‐the‐blank test items.
ISSN:1061-3773
1099-0542
1099-0542
DOI:10.1002/cae.22163