Content Importance Models for Scoring Writing From Sources
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani, Jill C. Burstein, Swapna Somasundaran · 2014
Selection of information from external sources is an important skill assessed in educational measurement. We address an integrative summarization task used in an assessment of English proficiency for non-native speakers applying to higher educa-tion institutions in the USA. We evaluate a variety of content importance models that help predict which parts of the source ma-terial should be selected by the test-taker in order to succeed on this task. 1