Controlling item difficulty for automatic vocabulary question generation

Abstract The present study investigates the best factor for controlling the item difficulty of multiple-choice English vocabulary questions generated by an automatic question generation system. Three factors are considered for controlling item difficulty: (1) reading passage difficulty, (2) semantic...

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Main Authors: Yuni Susanti, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hitoshi Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Obari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) 2017-12-01
Series:Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41039-017-0065-5