@inproceedings{nadeem-ostendorf-2017-language,
    title = "Language Based Mapping of Science Assessment Items to Skills",
    author = "Nadeem, Farah  and
      Ostendorf, Mari",
    editor = "Tetreault, Joel  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Leacock, Claudia  and
      Yannakoudakis, Helen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W17-5036/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5036",
    pages = "319--326",
    abstract = "Knowledge of the association between assessment questions and the skills required to solve them is necessary for analysis of student learning. This association, often represented as a Q-matrix, is either hand-labeled by domain experts or learned as latent variables given a large student response data set. As a means of automating the match to formal standards, this paper uses neural text classification methods, leveraging the language in the standards documents to identify online text for a proxy training task. Experiments involve identifying the topic and crosscutting concepts of middle school science questions leveraging multi-task training. Results show that it is possible to automatically build a Q-matrix without student response data and using a modest number of hand-labeled questions."
}