A Fuzzy WordNet graph based approach to find key terms for students short answer evaluation

Short answer evaluation has always been an enormously popular research topic due to its large application domain. In this paper, it is applied for students answer sheet evaluation. An automated method for students answer sheet evaluation may ensure that the assessment is impartial and free of any prejudices that the evaluator may have in the favor of or against the student. This paper proposes a method for students answer sheet evaluation for short answer type questions using a Fuzzy W ordNet graph based approach. The results are obtained on a synthetic dataset and as compared to the state-of-art, they seem promising.

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