Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

In the educational framework, knowledge assessment is a critical component, and quizzes (sets of questions with concise answers) are a popular tool for this purpose.This paper focuses on the generation of balanced quizzes, i.e., quizzes that relate to a given set of documents, and to the central concepts described by the documents, in an evenly distributed manner.Our approach leverages a graph representing the relationships between questions, documents, and concepts, and phrases quiz construction as a node selection problem in this graph.We provide algorithms for constructing the graph and for selecting a good set of quiz questions.In our concrete implementation, we build quizzes for a collection of Wikipedia…

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  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne