Automatic generation of cloze items for prepositions

• DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2007-592
• Publication Date: 2021-08-27T06:00:24Z
• Authors: John Lee; Stephanie Seneff
• Keywords: 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences

Fill-in-the-blank questions, or cloze items, are commonly used in language learning applications. The benefits of personalized tailored to the user’s interest and proficiency, have motivated research on automatic generation items. This paper is concerned with generating items for prepositions, whose usage often poses problems non-native speakers English. quality a item depends choice distractors. We propose two methods, based collocations English corpora, generate distractors prepositions. Both methods found be more successful attracting users than baseline that relies only word frequency, common criterion past research. Index Terms: computer-assisted learning, natural