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Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents

Menghini, Cristina
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Dehler Zufferey, Jessica  
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West, Robert  
January 1, 2018
Cikm'18: Proceedings Of The 27Th Acm International Conference On Information And Knowledge Management
27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

In the educational framework, knowledge assessment is a critical component, and quizzes (sets of questions with concise answers) are a popular tool for this purpose. This paper focuses on the generation of balanced quizzes, i.e., quizzes that relate to a given set of documents, and to the central concepts described by the documents, in an evenly distributed manner. Our approach leverages a graph representing the relationships between questions, documents, and concepts, and phrases quiz construction as a node selection problem in this graph. We provide algorithms for constructing the graph and for selecting a good set of quiz questions. In our concrete implementation, we build quizzes for a collection of Wikipedia articles and evaluate them both with simulated students and with real human quiz takers, finding that our balanced quizzes are better suited at determining which articles the user has not read (corresponding to their knowledge gaps) than reasonable baselines.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3269206.3269298
Web of Science ID

WOS:000455712300160

Author(s)
Menghini, Cristina
Dehler Zufferey, Jessica  
West, Robert  
Date Issued

2018-01-01

Publisher

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Cikm'18: Proceedings Of The 27Th Acm International Conference On Information And Knowledge Management
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-6014-2

Start page

1519

End page

1522

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Computer Science

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

Torino, ITALY

Oct 22-26, 2018

Available on Infoscience
January 31, 2019
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