Introduction to the special issue on the web as corpus
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on web as corpus
Computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests
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Automatic measuring of English language proficiency using MT evaluation technology
eLearn '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning
A computer-aided environment for generating multiple-choice test items
Natural Language Engineering
WebExperimenter for multiple-choice question generation
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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
Personalized reading support for second-language web documents by collective intelligence
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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
Automatic distractor generation for domain specific texts
IceTAL'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in natural language processing
Predicting and compensating for lexicon access errors
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Bootstrapping multiple-choice tests with THE-MENTOR
CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part I
Canadian AI'11 Proceedings of the 24th Canadian conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Automatic gap-fill question generation from text books
IUNLPBEA '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
A cloze test authoring system and its automation
ICWL'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in web based learning
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
Personalized reading support for second-language web documents
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems
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This paper proposes the automatic generation of Fill-in-the-Blank Questions (FBQs) together with testing based on Item Response Theory (IRT) to measure English proficiency. First, the proposal generates an FBQ from a given sentence in English. The position of a blank in the sentence is determined, and the word at that position is considered as the correct choice. The candidates for incorrect choices for the blank are hypothesized through a thesaurus. Then, each of the candidates is verified by using the Web. Finally, the blanked sentence, the correct choice and the incorrect choices surviving the verification are together laid out to form the FBQ. Second, the proficiency of non-native speakers who took the test consisting of such FBQs is estimated through IRT. Our experimental results suggest that: (1) the generated questions plus IRT estimate the non-native speakers' English proficiency; (2) while on the other hand, the test can be completed almost perfectly by English native speakers; and (3) the number of questions can be reduced by using item information in IRT. The proposed method provides teachers and testers with a tool that reduces time and expenditure for testing English proficiency.