A Weak Supervision Approach for Predicting Difficulty of Technical Interview Questions
Arpita Kundu, Subhasish Ghosh, Pratik Saini, Tapas Nayak, Indrajit Bhattacharya
Abstract
Predicting difficulty of questions is crucial for technical interviews. However, such questions are long-form and more open-ended than factoid and multiple choice questions explored so far for question difficulty prediction. Existing models also require large volumes of candidate response data for training. We study weak-supervision and use unsupervised algorithms for both question generation and difficulty prediction. We create a dataset of interview questions with difficulty scores for deep learning and use it to evaluate SOTA models for question difficulty prediction trained using weak supervision. Our analysis brings out the task’s difficulty as well as the promise of weak supervision for it.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.400
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4537–4543
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.400
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Arpita Kundu, Subhasish Ghosh, Pratik Saini, Tapas Nayak, and Indrajit Bhattacharya. 2022. A Weak Supervision Approach for Predicting Difficulty of Technical Interview Questions. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4537–4543, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Weak Supervision Approach for Predicting Difficulty of Technical Interview Questions (Kundu et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.coling-1.400.pdf