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Extracting Linguistic Signal From Item Text and Its Application to Modeling Item Characteristics

Posted: | Victoria Yaneva, Peter Baldwin, Le An Ha, Christopher Runyon

Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment: Pages 167-182

 

This chapter discusses the evolution of natural language processing (NLP) approaches to text representation and how different ways of representing text can be utilized for a relatively understudied task in educational assessment – that of predicting item characteristics from item text.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Applications of Technology, Scoring

Reading Differences in Eye-Tracking Data as a Marker of High-Functioning Autism in Adults and Comparison to Results from Web-Related Tasks

Posted: | Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, Ruslan Mitkov

Neural Engineering Techniques for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Volume 2, Pages 63-79

 

Automated detection of high-functioning autism in adults is a highly challenging and understudied problem. In search of a way to automatically detect the condition, this chapter explores how eye-tracking data from reading tasks can be used.

Category:Health Professions, Assessment-Oriented Research, Applications of Technology