A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer

The development of automatic assessment systems is a relevant task designed to simplify the routine work of a teacher and speed up feedback for a student. The survey is devoted to research in the field of automatic assessment of student answers based on a teacher's reference answer. The authors...

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Main Authors: Nadezhda S. Lagutina, Ksenia V. Lagutina
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Language:English
Published: Yaroslavl State University 2025-03-01
Series:Моделирование и анализ информационных систем
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Online Access:https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1915
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description The development of automatic assessment systems is a relevant task designed to simplify the routine work of a teacher and speed up feedback for a student. The survey is devoted to research in the field of automatic assessment of student answers based on a teacher's reference answer. The authors of the work analyzed text models used for the tasks of automatic assessment of short answers (ASAG) and automated essay assessment (AES). Several approaches were also taken into account for the task of determining the text similarity, since it is a close task, and the methods for solving it can also be useful for analyzing student answers. Text models can be divided into several large categories. The first is linguistic models based on various stylometric features, both simple ones like a bag of words and n-grams, and complex ones like syntactic and semantic ones. The authors attributed neural network models based on various embeddings to the second category. It highlights large language models as universal, popular and high-quality modeling methods. The third category includes combined models that unite both linguistic features and neural network embeddings. A comparison of modern studies on models, methods and quality metrics showed that the trends in the subject area coincide with the trends in computational linguistics in general. A large number of authors choose large language models to solve their problems, but standard features remain in demand. It is impossible to single out a universal approach; each subtask requires a separate choice of method and adjustment of its parameters. Combined and ensemble approaches allow achieving higher quality than other methods. The vast majority of studies examine texts in English. However, successful results for national languages ​​are also found. It can be concluded that the development and adaptation of methods for assessing students' answers in national languages ​​is a relevant and promising task.
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spelling doaj-art-3969c0f531dc47fca95c1206e66831bb2025-08-20T03:00:45ZengYaroslavl State UniversityМоделирование и анализ информационных систем1818-10152313-54172025-03-01321426510.18255/1818-1015-2025-1-42-651427A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answerNadezhda S. Lagutina0Ksenia V. Lagutina1P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State UniversityP.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State UniversityThe development of automatic assessment systems is a relevant task designed to simplify the routine work of a teacher and speed up feedback for a student. The survey is devoted to research in the field of automatic assessment of student answers based on a teacher's reference answer. The authors of the work analyzed text models used for the tasks of automatic assessment of short answers (ASAG) and automated essay assessment (AES). Several approaches were also taken into account for the task of determining the text similarity, since it is a close task, and the methods for solving it can also be useful for analyzing student answers. Text models can be divided into several large categories. The first is linguistic models based on various stylometric features, both simple ones like a bag of words and n-grams, and complex ones like syntactic and semantic ones. The authors attributed neural network models based on various embeddings to the second category. It highlights large language models as universal, popular and high-quality modeling methods. The third category includes combined models that unite both linguistic features and neural network embeddings. A comparison of modern studies on models, methods and quality metrics showed that the trends in the subject area coincide with the trends in computational linguistics in general. A large number of authors choose large language models to solve their problems, but standard features remain in demand. It is impossible to single out a universal approach; each subtask requires a separate choice of method and adjustment of its parameters. Combined and ensemble approaches allow achieving higher quality than other methods. The vast majority of studies examine texts in English. However, successful results for national languages ​​are also found. It can be concluded that the development and adaptation of methods for assessing students' answers in national languages ​​is a relevant and promising task.https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1915natural language processingtext similaritytext classificationneural network language modelsassessing students' answersartificial intelligence in education
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A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
Моделирование и анализ информационных систем
natural language processing
text similarity
text classification
neural network language models
assessing students' answers
artificial intelligence in education
title A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
title_full A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
title_fullStr A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
title_full_unstemmed A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
title_short A survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student's answer to the reference answer
title_sort survey of models for automatic assessment of similarity of student s answer to the reference answer
topic natural language processing
text similarity
text classification
neural network language models
assessing students' answers
artificial intelligence in education
url https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1915
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