A Weak Supervision Approach for Predicting Difficulty of Technical Interview Questions

COLING 2022 · Arpita Kundu, Subhasish Ghosh, Pratik Saini, Tapas Nayak, Indrajit Bhattacharya ·

Predicting difficulty of questions is crucial for technical interviews. However, such questions are long-form and more open-ended than factoid and multiple choice questions explored so far for question difficulty prediction. Existing models also require large volumes of candidate response data for training. We study weak-supervision and use unsupervised algorithms for both question generation and difficulty prediction. We create a dataset of interview questions with difficulty scores for deep learning and use it to evaluate SOTA models for question difficulty prediction trained using weak supervision. Our analysis brings out the task’s difficulty as well as the promise of weak supervision for it.

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