A Comparison of Greedy and Optimal Assessment of Natural Language Student Input Using Word-to-Word Similarity Metrics

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-162

  Rus, Vasile ^a   Lintean, Mihai ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; JOB ASSIGNMENTS; MATCHING METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OPTIMAL MATCHING; SAILOR ASSIGNMENT; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY APPROACHES; SIMILARITY METRICS; WORD SIMILARITY;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85036049150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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