CU: Computational assessment of short free text answers - A tool for evaluating students? understanding

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 603-607

  Okoye, Ifeyinwa ^a   Bethard, Steven ^a   Sumner, Tamara ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

FREE TEXTS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; SHALLOW NLP; TEST SETS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85037126312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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