From: Automatic distractor generation for multiple-choice English vocabulary questions
Step | Baseline (Jiang and Lee 2017) | Proposed |
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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 |