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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lalit Agarwalla, Bangalore, IN;
Ashish Mungi, Bangalore, IN;
Joy Mustafi, Kolkata, IN;
Ankur Parikh, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Generating distractors for text-based MCT items. An MCT item stem is received. The stem is transmitted to a QA system and a plurality of candidate answers related to the stem is received from the QA system. Incorrect answers in the plurality of candidate answers are identified. Textual features are extracted from the stem. A set of semantic criteria associated with the extracted textual features is generated. Based on the generated semantic criteria, a subset of the incorrect candidate answers is selected.