Text-to-text semantic similarity for automatic short answer grading

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 567-575

  Mohler, Michael ^a   Mihalcea, Rada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC FEEDBACK; CORPUS-BASED MEASURES; KNOWLEDGE BASED; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; TEXT SIMILARITY; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; UNSUPERVISED TECHNIQUES;

GRADING;

EID: 78650765024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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