Automatic Generation of Cloze Question Distractors
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چکیده
This paper presents a technique to generate distractors for cloze questions in the context of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning tutoring system. The document will focus on an evaluation process used to measure the quality of the distractors that were automatically generated. The main goal of the present study is to be able to include this feature in the tutoring system.
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