Automatic Generation of Comprehension Tests for Arbitrary English Texts

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652122
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: TOMIURA Yoichi 九州大学, システム情報科学研究科(研究院, 教授 (10217523)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TANAKA Shosaku 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (00325549) ; ANDO Nahoko 九州大学, 法学研究院, 研究員 (50380655)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: テストの自動生成 / パラフレーズ / 重要文 / 多読支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Reading extensive English documents with comprehension test after reading is a good training for Japanese learners to comprehend English text without translating it into Japanese. They should read texts that are interesting and with an appropriate level for them. We have studied the method to generate automatically Multiple-Choice Test to support such training. The main techniques are the method for extracting the important sentences in the text and the method for paraphrasing them, which do not need a huge training data. We have developed these two methods. Although their performances are not practical level, we have got prospects of development.

Free Research Field

自然言語処理