Building a Textual Entailment Suite for the Evaluation of Automatic Content Scoring Technologies

Automatic content scoring for free-text responses has started to emerge as an application of Natural Language Processing in its own right, much like question answering or machine translation. The task, in general, is reduced to comparing a student's answer to a model answer. Although a considerable amount of work has been done, common benchmarks and evaluation measures for this application do not currently exist. It is yet impossible to perform a comparative evaluation or progress tracking of this application across systems

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Jana Z. Sukkarieh, Eleanor Bolge
• Keywords: Automatic Content, Education, LREC 2010, Textual Entailment, Textual Entailment Task