Corpus-based Automatic Generation of Multiple Choice Questions for College English Tests

DOI

10.2991/mmetss-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

corpus, multiple choice questions, automatic generation, College English tests

Abstract

At present multiple choice questions as a testing item are adopted widely in College English tests, and play a significant role in assessing students' English proficiency. However, in practice the design of multiple choice questions is also difficult in many aspects, especially with regard to the selection of the question that serves as its stem and the choices that need to be both interfering and exclusive. This paper introduces a method that can generate the stem question automatically based on an English-Chinese parallel corpus in which sentences that meet the designated criteria input by test question makers are extracted on the condition of complex considerations, such as sentence length, word choice and syntactic structure. Although the multiple choice questions generated by our system still need human involvement for correction and consideration, our work will surely provide valuable assistance to teachers who are designing multiple choice questions so that their efficiency will be improved significantly.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Wang
AU  - Shujing Li
AU  - Houfeng Wang
AU  - Shiwen Yu
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Corpus-based Automatic Generation of Multiple Choice Questions for College English Tests
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 156
EP  - 162
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmetss-17.2017.31
DO  - 10.2991/mmetss-17.2017.31
ID  - Wang2017/07
ER  -