ETS: Domain adaptation and stacking for short answer scoring

*SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 275-279

  Heilman, Michael ^a   Madnani, Nitin ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SCORING; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT; LABELED DATA; LARGE AMOUNTS; RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL ENTAILMENTS; STUDENT RESPONSE; TEXT SIMILARITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84994105491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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