Generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from Medical Text: A Pilot Study

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  • Nikiforos Karamanis
  • Le An Ha
  • Ruslan Mitkov
چکیده

We report the results of a pilot study on generating Multiple-Choice Test Items from medical text and discuss the main tasks involved in this process and how our system was evaluated by domain experts.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006