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This paper is concerned with a tool that supports human experts in their task of classifying text excerpts suitable to be used in quizzes for learning materials and as items of exams that are aimed at assessing and certifying the language level of students taking courses of Portuguese as a second language.
We assess the performance of this tool, which is currently available as an online service and is being used by the experts of the team of Camões IP that is responsible for the elaboration of the quizzes and of exam items to be used in language certification exams.
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Branco, A., Rodrigues, J., Costa, F., Silva, J., Vaz, R. (2014). Rolling out Text Categorization for Language Learning Assessment Supported by Language Technology. In: Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Candeias, S., Paraboni, I., Pardo, T.A.S., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_29
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