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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