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Argumentation Element Annotation Modeling using XLNet
Christopher Ormerod, Amy Burkhardt, Mackenzie Young +1
This study demonstrates the effectiveness of XLNet, a transformer-based language model, for annotating argumentative elements in persuasive essays. XLNet's architecture incorporate…
Using language models in the implicit automated assessment of mathematical short answer items
Christopher Ormerod
We propose a new way to assess certain short constructed responses to mathematics items. Our approach uses a pipeline that identifies the key values specified by the student in the…
Using Language Models to Detect Alarming Student Responses
Christopher M. Ormerod, Milan Patel, Harry Wang
This article details the advances made to a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify alarming student responses. This system is built into our assessment platform to as…
Short-answer scoring with ensembles of pretrained language models
Christopher Ormerod
We investigate the effectiveness of ensembles of pretrained transformer-based language models on short answer questions using the Kaggle Automated Short Answer Scoring dataset. We…
The effects of data size on Automated Essay Scoring engines
Christopher Ormerod, Amir Jafari, Susan Lottridge +3
We study the effects of data size and quality on the performance on Automated Essay Scoring (AES) engines that are designed in accordance with three different paradigms; A frequenc…