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Towards Generating Multiple-Choice Tests for Supporting Extensive Reading

Authors:
Shinjiro Okaku
Yoichi Tomiura
Emi Ishita
Shosaku Tanaka

Keywords: Aided Learning; Important Sentence; Paraphrase; Documents on Web; Extensive Reading.

Abstract:
We propose a method for generating multiple-choice test for an English text selected by a learner and its answer, that are used to make a self-assessment whether the learner comprehends the text after reading it. In our method, the system extracts several important sentences from the text, and replaces one word in each of these sentences with its synonym (if possible). One of these sentences is then selected as a correct optional sentence, while further changes to the polarities or nouns in the remaining sentences are carried out to generate distractor optional sentences for the multiple-choice test. Our method has potential to make extensive reading in English more effective.

Pages: 14 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-385-8

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015