We report two essential improvements in readability assessment: 1. three novel features in advanced semantics and 2. the timely evidence that traditional ML models (eg Random …
Automatic item generation (AIG) has the potential to greatly expand the number of items for educational assessments, while simultaneously allowing for a more construct-driven …
Readability assessment aims to automatically classify text by the level appropriate for learning readers. Traditional approaches to this task utilize a variety of linguistically …
We describe a method for rapidly creating language proficiency assessments, and provide experimental evidence that such tests can be valid, reliable, and secure. Our approach is the …
KP Yancey, G Laflair, A Verardi… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Essay scoring is a critical task used to evaluate second-language (L2) writing proficiency on high-stakes language assessments. While automated scoring approaches are mature and …
S Vajjala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.00973, 2021 - arxiv.org
Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text. Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two …
Z Ji, P Ma, Z Li, S Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.06680, 2023 - arxiv.org
While code generation has been widely used in various software development scenarios, the quality of the generated code is not guaranteed. This has been a particular concern in …