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.
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.
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.
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.