When students study for multiple-choice cloze tests as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), they tend to repeatedly tackle questions of the same type. In such situations, students can effectively solve questions related to their incorrectly answered questions. However, since they need several different kinds of knowledge and a large vocabulary to derive answers, it is in...

Computer “reading” of natural languages is a growing research topic with numerous applications, ranging from areas of artificial intelligence to linguistics. A successful “reading” of natural languages can be interpreted in two ways: 1) extracting facts out of a passage and 2) capturing “meaning” of a text. We focus on the latter interpretation, defining “meaning” as is done in humans, namely, ...

This paper describes a Web-based Test, Examination and Assessment system that can be used via the Internet. It is therefore suitable for both local and remote examination preparation as well as examination within a lab course (entry test). This solution is also intended for the use in lectures dealing with the design of complex digital control systems within the newly created European Master De...

Cloze questions are questions containing sentences with one or more blanks and multiple choices listed to pick an answer from. In this work, we present an automatic Cloze Question Generation (CQG) system that generates a list of important cloze questions given an English article. Our system is divided into three modules: sentence selection, keyword selection and distractor selection. We also pr...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G4SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). To this end the 41-item English Language Acquisition Scale (ELAS) designed by Khodadady and Younesi (2017) was administered to 518 G4SHS students. Also to find the probable relationship between ELAS, its latent variable...

Since English expressions are different according to the genre, it is important for users to study with questions that are generated from sentences of the target genre. Although various questions are prepared, it is still not enough to satisfy various genres which users want to learn. On the other hand, when producing English questions, enough grammatical knowledge and vocabulary are needed, so...