A Hybrid Approach for Automated Short Answer Grading

Bibliographic Details
Title: A Hybrid Approach for Automated Short Answer Grading
Authors: Mustafa Kaya, Ilyas Cicekli
Source: IEEE Access, Vol 12, Pp 96332-96341 (2024)
Publisher Information: IEEE, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Subject Terms: Automated short answer grading, BERT, CNN, LSTM, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
More Details: With the widespread use of distance learning, technological developments have also been applied in the field of education. The need for accurate and efficient assessment methods for online exams has become even more apparent, especially with remote learning taking place during the pandemic. For a more efficient evaluation process, we propose a hybrid model of the Automatic Short Answer Grading (ASAG) system based on Bidirectional Encoder Representation of Transformers (BERT). The usage of novel state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) techniques in our model enhances the comprehension of text. Specifically, we employ a customized multi-head attention mechanism adapted with BERT, which enables reliable identification of semantic dependencies among words within a sentence and therefore contributes to the effectiveness and trustworthiness of the scoring system. We use a parallel connection of CNN layers in our proposed BERT based ASAG system instead of their serial connection and this usage improves the performance of the system. The proposed model is assessed using common datasets frequently used for ASAG related research projects. In this evaluation process, our model produces much better results compared to other systems available in the literature.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2169-3536
Relation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10577980/; https://doaj.org/toc/2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3420890
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/ff128675f32a4c7d9afdd77e8b71f1be
Accession Number: edsdoj.ff128675f32a4c7d9afdd77e8b71f1be
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
More Details
ISSN:21693536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3420890
Published in:IEEE Access
Language:English