Automated Short-Answer Grading using Semantic Similarity based on Word Embedding

Autor: Fetty Fitriyanti Lubis, Mutaqin, Atina Putri, Dana Waskita, Tri Sulistyaningtyas, Arry Akhmad Arman, Yusep Rosmansyah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Technology, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 571-581 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2086-9614
2087-2100
DOI: 10.14716/ijtech.v12i3.4651
Popis: Automatic short-answer grading (ASAG) is a system that aims to help speed up the assessment process without an instructor’s intervention. Previous research had successfully built an ASAG system whose performance had a correlation of 0.66 and mean absolute error (MAE) starting from 0.94 with a conventionally graded set. However, this study had a weakness in the need for more than one reference answer for each question. It used a string-based equation method and keyword matching process to measure the sentences’ similarity in order to produce an assessment rubric. Thus, our study aimed to build a more concise short-answer automatic scoring system using a single reference answer. The mechanism used a semantic similarity measurement approach through word embedding techniques and syntactic analysis to assess the learner’s accuracy. Based on the experiment results, the semantic similarity approach showed a correlation value of 0.70 and an MAE of 0.70 when compared with the grading reference.
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