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e-stat: Automatic Evaluation of Online Exercises

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The implementation of tools for online exercises into the e-stat environment is described here. Besides the usual types of online exercises special emphasis is put on the automatic evaluation of free text answers. This can be formulated as a problem of classification which is based on an analysis of the free text with statistical methods of computational linguistics.

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  1. LS Statistik und Ökonometrie, Universität Potsdam, PF 900327, 14439, Potsdam, Germany

    Knut Bartels

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  1. CASE — Centre of Applied Statistics and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Härdle

  2. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Straße 1, 10178, Berlin, Germany

    Bernd Rönz

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Bartels, K. (2002). e-stat: Automatic Evaluation of Online Exercises. In: Härdle, W., Rönz, B. (eds) Compstat. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57489-4_45

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