Title :
An Automatic Quiz Generation System for English Text
Author :
Sung, Li-Chun ; Lin, Yi-Chien ; Chen, Meng Chang
Author_Institution :
Acad. Sinica, Taipei
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2007. ICALT 2007. Seventh IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niigata
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2916-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2007.56
