Machine grading of short answers with explanations
US11450225B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 14, 2021 |
| Grant date | Sep 20, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 14, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N20/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example method embodying the disclosed technology comprises: digitally storing Teacher models and a Student model at a server computer; training each model with a corpus of unlabeled training data using Masked Language Modeling; fine-tuning each Teacher model for an ASAG task with labeled ground truth data; executing each Teacher model to generate and digitally store a respective set of class probabilities on an unlabeled task-specific data set for the ASAG task; further training the Student model by a linear ensemble of the Teacher models using KD; receiving, at the server computer, digital input comprising a target response text and a corresponding target reference answer text; programmatically inputting the target response text and the corresponding target reference answer text to the Student model, thereby outputting a corresponding predicted binary label; displaying correction data indicating the corresponding predicted binary label in a GUI; and, optionally, displaying explainability data in the GUI.
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