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  <Title>WebExperimenter for multiple-choice question generation</Title>
  <Section position="3" start_page="18" end_page="18" type="intro">
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3 Related Studies
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The application of NLP techniques to generation of multiple-choice questions does not have a long history. Few attempts had been made before (Mitkov and Ha, 2003), in which a semi-automatic question generation on student's knowledge of linguistic terms are evaluated. Sumita et al. used automatically generated questions to measure test taker's proficiency in English (2005). We are proposing a machine learning approach which depends on a training on a collection of manually made questions (Hoshino and Nakagawa, 2005).</Paragraph>
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