A cloze test authoring system and its automation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4823 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 252-263

  Hoshino, Ayako ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer adaptive testing; Language testing; Natural language processing; Test authoring system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-ADAPTIVE TESTING; LANGUAGE TESTING; TEST AUTHORING SYSTEM;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 41549142203     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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