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We formulate some questions that may help an analyst to choose a multicriteria decision aiding method well adapted to the decision context. These questions take into account several aspects of the decision process and of the cooperation between the analyst and the decision maker. We present these questions in a hierarchical order, from the most general and crucial, through other pertinent quest...

A key issue in teaching and learning in information retrieval – particularly for library and information science students – is the gap in prior knowledge compared with the need for mathematics to conduct and evaluate searches. In this chapter, we examine the use of online Multiple Choice Questions to support these type of students, and narrow this gap between experience and knowledge. We provid...

In this paper, we investigate an unsupervised approach to Relation Extraction to be applied in the context of automatic generation of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The approach aims to identify the most important semantic relations in a document without assigning explicit labels to them in order to ensure broad coverage, unrestricted to predefined types of relations. The paper examines thre...

With the on-line resources becoming common one can ask what are the limitations when applied to online examinations. Standardized multiple-choice questions test are commonly used either as a tool to enable student selfexamination or as a tool to test a large number of students in a more efficient way. However, the means of delivery and what one intends the tests to measure should be carefully c...