Automatic and Human Scoring of Word Definition Responses
Kevyn Collins‐Thompson, Jamie Callan · 2007
Assessing learning progress is a critical step in language learning applications and experiments. In word learning, for example, one important type of assessment is a definition production test, in which subjects are asked to produce a short definition of the word being learned. In current practice, each free response is manually scored according to how well its meaning matches the target definition. Manual scoring is not only time-consuming, but also limited in its flexibility and ability to detect partial learning effects. This study describes an effective automatic