Cheating Automatic Short Answer Grading: On the Adversarial Usage of Adjectives and Adverbs. (arXiv:2201.08318v1 [cs.CL])

Automatic grading models are valued for the time and effort saved during the
instruction of large student bodies. Especially with the increasing
digitization of education and interest in large-scale standardized testing, the
popularity of automatic grading has risen to the point where commercial
solutions are widely available and used. However, for short answer formats,
automatic grading is challenging due to natural language ambiguity and
versatility. While automatic short answer grading models are beginning to
compare to human performance on some …

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