Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
A maximum entropy approach to identifying sentence boundaries
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Computer-assisted item generation for listening cloze tests and dictation practice in english
ICWL'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning
A computer-aided environment for generating multiple-choice test items
Natural Language Engineering
FAST: an automatic generation system for grammar tests
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Interactive presentation sessions
Computer-Aided Generation of Item Banks Based on Ontology and Bloom's Taxonomy
ICWL '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in Web Based Learning
Retrieval of reading materials for vocabulary and reading practice
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
New issues and solutions in computer-aided design of MCTI and distractors selection for Bulgarian
MRTECEEL '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Resources, Technologies and Evaluation for Central and Eastern European Languages
Predicting cloze task quality for vocabulary training
IUNLPBEA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Personalization of Reading Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
ArikIturri: an automatic question generator based on corpora and NLP techniques
ITS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Generating diagnostic multiple choice comprehension cloze questions
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
Next generation of e-assessment: automatic generation of questions
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
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We report experience in applying techniques for natural language processing to algorithmically generating test items for both reading and listening cloze items. We propose a word sense disambiguation-based method for locating sentences in which designated words carry specific senses, and apply a collocation-based method for selecting distractors that are necessary for multiple-choice cloze items. Experimental results indicate that our system was able to produce a usable item for every 1.6 items it returned. We also attempt to measure distance between sounds of words by considering phonetic features of the words. With the help of voice synthesizers, we were able to assist the task of composing listening cloze items. By providing both reading and listening cloze items, we would like to offer a somewhat adaptive system for assisting Taiwanese children in learning English vocabulary.