This paper describes Japanese textual entailment recognition systems for NTCIR-10 RITE2. The tasks that we participated in are the Japanese BC subtask and the ExamBC subtask. Our methods are based on some machine learning techniques with surface level, syntax and semantic features. We use two ontologies, the Japanese WordNet and Nihongo-Goi-Taikei, and Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph (HDAG)...

This paper describes the Question Answering for Machine Reading (QA4MRE) Main Task at the 2013 Cross Language Evaluation Forum. In the main task, systems answered multiple-choice questions on documents concerned with four different topics. There were also two pilot tasks, Machine Reading on Biomedical Texts about Alzheimer's disease, and Japanese Entrance Exams. This paper describes the prepara...

This paper describes our participation to the Entrance Exams Task of CLEF 2014’s Question Answering Track. The goal is to answer multiple-choice questions on short texts. Our system first retrieves passages relevant to the question, through lexical expansion involving a structured use of the Simple English Wiktionary and WordNet. Then it extracts predicate-argument structures (PAS) from each an...

Background: Considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. Methods: The existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

Modern education is hard to imagine without the use of e-learning tools, but still the transition from traditional “paper-and-pencil” examining to electronic exams is to some extent cautious. Although course administration and exam evaluation are much easier with learning management systems, there are concerns among teaching staff, that electronic tests simplify examination process compared to ...

In this work, we describe the first step towards electronic exams at the University of Stuttgart. The motivation, both driven by students and lecturers, is to offer assessments that are closer to real-life programming by allowing interactive programming and debugging not possible with pen and paper exams. This is in so far important as skills in computer algebra systems as for example MATLAB or...