Table 1 Methods to be compared
From: Automatic distractor generation for multiple-choice English vocabulary questions
| Step | Baseline (Jiang and Lee 2017) | Proposed |
|---|---|---|
| Selection | All words in English | (1) Synonym of co-occurrence words in the passage |
| Wiki Corpus with the | (2) Sibling words in the taxonomy and synonyms of | |
| same part of speech as | synonyms | |
| the target word | (3) Words in the JACET8000 list with the close level | |
| to the correct answer | ||
| Filtering | Trigram filtering | Criteria by (Heaton 1989) and synonym filtering |
| Ranking | word2vec-based semantic | GloVe-based semantic similarity between the target |
| Similarity between the | word and a distractor candidate, and between the | |
| target word and a | correct answer and a distractor candidate, and word | |
| distractor candidate | collocation |