Sentence Similarity Measures for Fine-Grained Estimation of Topical Relevance in Learner Essays

WS 2016  ·  Marek Rei, Ronan Cummins ·

We investigate the task of assessing sentence-level prompt relevance in learner essays. Various systems using word overlap, neural embeddings and neural compositional models are evaluated on two datasets of learner writing. We propose a new method for sentence-level similarity calculation, which learns to adjust the weights of pre-trained word embeddings for a specific task, achieving substantially higher accuracy compared to other relevant baselines.

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