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Andreea Dutulescu; Stefan Ruseti; Denis Iorga; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
The process of generating challenging and appropriate distractors for multiple-choice questions is a complex and time-consuming task. Existing methods for an automated generation have limitations in proposing challenging distractors, or they fail to effectively filter out incorrect choices that closely resemble the correct answer, share synonymous…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Artificial Intelligence, Attention, Natural Language Processing
Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Mihai Dascalu; Scott Andrew Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The ability to express yourself concisely and coherently is a crucial skill, both for academic purposes and professional careers. An important aspect to consider in writing is an adequate segmentation of ideas, which in turn requires a proper understanding of where to place paragraph breaks. However, these decisions are often performed…
Descriptors: Paragraph Composition, Text Structure, Automation, Identification
Bogdan Nicula; Marilena Panaite; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Self-explanation practice is an effective method to support students in better understanding complex texts. This study focuses on automatically assessing the comprehension strategies employed by readers while understanding STEM texts. Data from 3 datasets (N = 11,833) with self-explanations annotated on different comprehension strategies (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, STEM Education
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Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Micah Watanabe; Mihai Dascalu; Scott A. Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
Age of Acquisition (AoA) scores approximate the age at which a language speaker fully understands a word's semantic meaning and represent a quantitative measure of the relative difficulty of words in a language. AoA word lists exist across various languages, with English having the most complete lists that capture the largest percentage of the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Micah Watanabe; Mihai Dascalu; Scott A. Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Age of Acquisition (AoA) scores approximate the age at which a language speaker fully understands a word's semantic meaning and represent a quantitative measure of the relative difficulty of words in a language. AoA word lists exist across various languages, with English having the most complete lists that capture the largest percentage of the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Michelle P. Banawan; Jinnie Shin; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Walter L. Leite; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Academic discourse communities and learning circles are characterized by collaboration, sharing commonalities in terms of social interactions and language. The discourse of these communities is composed of jargon, common terminologies, and similarities in how they construe and communicate meaning. This study examines the extent to which discourse…
Descriptors: Algebra, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax