3 accepted papers
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are very common in both high-stakes and low-stakes examinations, and their effectiveness in assessing students relies on the quality and diversity of distractors, which are the incorrect answer options provided alongside the correct answer. Motivated by the progress…
Language identification is an important first step in many NLP applications. Most publicly available language identification datasets, however, are compiled under the assumption that the gold label of each instance is determined by where texts are retrieved from. Research has shown that this is a pr…
This paper presents the first multi-objective transformer model for generating open cloze tests that exploits generation and discrimination capabilities to improve performance. Our model is further enhanced by tweaking its loss function and applying a post-processing re-ranking algorithm that improv…