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ERIC Number: ED577121
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-
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Assessing Question Quality Using NLP
Kopp, Kristopher J.; Johnson, Amy M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S.
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (18th, 2017)
An NLP algorithm was developed to assess question quality to inform feedback on questions generated by students within iSTART (an intelligent tutoring system that teaches reading strategies). A corpus of 4575 questions was coded using a four-level taxonomy. NLP indices were calculated for each question and machine learning was used to predict question quality. NLP indices related to lexical sophistication modestly predicted question type. Accuracies improved when predicting two levels (shallow versus deep). [This paper was published in: E. Andre, R. Baker, X. Hu, M. M. T. Rodrigo, & B. du Boulay (Eds.), "Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education" (pp. 523-527). Wuhan, China: Springer.]
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED); Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A130124; ONRN000141410343; ONRN000141712300