Search Results for author: Peter Baldwin

Found 4 papers, 0 papers with code

Using Linguistic Features to Predict the Response Process Complexity Associated with Answering Clinical MCQs

no code implementations EACL (BEA) 2021 Victoria Yaneva, Daniel Jurich, Le An Ha, Peter Baldwin

This study examines the relationship between the linguistic characteristics of a test item and the complexity of the response process required to answer it correctly.

Clustering Descriptive

Predicting the Difficulty and Response Time of Multiple Choice Questions Using Transfer Learning

no code implementations WS 2020 Kang Xue, Victoria Yaneva, Christopher Runyon, Peter Baldwin

The results indicate that, for our sample, transfer learning can improve the prediction of item difficulty when response time is used as an auxiliary task but not the other way around.

Multiple-choice Transfer Learning

Predicting Item Survival for Multiple Choice Questions in a High-Stakes Medical Exam

no code implementations LREC 2020 Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Peter Baldwin, Janet Mee

One of the most resource-intensive problems in the educational testing industry relates to ensuring that newly-developed exam questions can adequately distinguish between students of high and low ability.

Information Retrieval Multiple-choice +1

Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple Choice Questions in a High-stakes Medical Exam

no code implementations WS 2019 Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva, Peter Baldwin, Janet Mee

To accomplish this, we extract a large number of linguistic features and embedding types, as well as features quantifying the difficulty of the items for an automatic question-answering system.

Multiple-choice Question Answering

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