An Automatic Quiz Generation System for English Text

Author

Sung, Li-Chun ; Lin, Yi-Chien ; Chen, Meng Chang

Author_Institution

Acad. Sinica, Taipei

fYear

2007

fDate

18-20 July 2007

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

197

Abstract

In this study, we design and prototype an automatic quiz generation system (auto-quiz for short) for a given English text to test learner comprehension of text content and English skills. The auto-quiz process parses an English text into a semantic network representation and enhances the semantic network iteratively with intrinsic knowledge, such as English grammar and writing styles, and extrinsic knowledge, such as the word relationship in WordNet and statistics from corpus or search engines. Then, the quiz generation process generates quiz from the text based on learner comprehension skills and according to the learner learning status and needs, such as English proficiency and frequent errors.

Keywords

distance learning; natural language processing; semantic networks; text analysis; English Text; English grammar; English proficiency; English skills; automatic quiz generation system; autoquiz process; extrinsic knowledge; frequent errors; search engines; semantic network representation; text content; writing styles; Automatic testing; Education; Electronic mail; Information science; Prototypes; Search engines; Statistics; System testing; Vocabulary; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Niigata

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2916-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2007.56

Filename

4280989