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Ramotowska, Sonia; Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Maanen, Leendert; Szymanik, Jakub – Cognitive Science, 2023
According to logical theories of meaning, a meaning of an expression can be formalized and encoded in truth conditions. Vagueness of the language and individual differences between people are a challenge to incorporate into the meaning representations. In this paper, we propose a new approach to study truth-conditional representations of vague…
Descriptors: Computation, Models, Semantics, Decision Making
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Lu, Chang; Cutumisu, Maria – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
Digitalization and automation of test administration, score reporting, and feedback provision have the potential to benefit large-scale and formative assessments. Many studies on automated essay scoring (AES) and feedback generation systems were published in the last decade, but few connected AES and feedback generation within a unified framework.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Automation, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring
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Weinstein, Theresa J.; Ceh, Simon Majed; Meinel, Christoph; Benedek, Mathias – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
Evaluating creativity of verbal responses or texts is a challenging task due to psychometric issues associated with subjective ratings and the peculiarities of textual data. We explore an approach to objectively assess the creativity of responses in a sentence generation task to (1) better understand what language-related aspects are valued by…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sentences, Natural Language Processing, Computation
Sharp, Rebecca Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2017
We address the challenging task of "computational natural language inference," by which we mean bridging two or more natural language texts while also providing an explanation of how they are connected. In the context of question answering (i.e., finding short answers to natural language questions), this inference connects the question…
Descriptors: Computation, Natural Language Processing, Inferences, Questioning Techniques
Bostandjiev, Svetlin Alex I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The evolution of the Web brought new interesting problems to computer scientists that we loosely classify in the fields of social and semantic computing. Social computing is related to two major paradigms: computations carried out by a large amount of people in a collective intelligence fashion (i.e. wikis), and performing computations on social…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Semantics, Language Processing, Computer Interfaces
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Varner, Laura K.; Jackson, G. Tanner; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study expands upon an existing model of students' reading comprehension ability within an intelligent tutoring system. The current system evaluates students' natural language input using a local student model. We examine the potential to expand this model by assessing the linguistic features of self-explanations aggregated across entire…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Reading Ability
Wu, Stephen Tze-Inn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This thesis aims to define and extend a line of computational models for text comprehension that are humanly plausible. Since natural language is human by nature, computational models of human language will always be just that--models. To the degree that they miss out on information that humans would tap into, they may be improved by considering…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Syntax, Short Term Memory
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis