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Benjamin Paassen

4 accepted papers

2025

Mitigating Bias in Item Retrieval for Enhancing Exam Assembly in Vocational Education Services

NAACL 2025industry

In education, high-quality exams must cover broad specifications across diverse difficulty levels during the assembly and calibration of test items to effectively measure examinees’ competence. However, balancing the trade-off of selecting relevant test items while fulfilling exam specifications wit…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

EdTec-QBuilder: A Semantic Retrieval Tool for Assembling Vocational Training Exams in German Language

NAACL 2024system demonstrations

Selecting and assembling test items from a validated item database into comprehensive exam forms is an under-researched but significant challenge in education. Search and retrieval methods provide a robust framework to assist educators when filtering and assembling relevant test items. In this work,…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Fine-Grained Detection of Solidarity for Women and Migrants in 155 Years of German Parliamentary Debates

EMNLP 2024main

Solidarity is a crucial concept to understand social relations in societies. In this study, we investigate the frequency of (anti-)solidarity towards women and migrants in German parliamentary debates between 1867 and 2022. Using 2,864 manually annotated text snippets, we evaluate large language mod…