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ERIC Number: ED383202
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994-Dec
Pages: 114
Abstractor: N/A
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Errata: Response Analysis and Error Diagnosis Tools.
Hart, Robert S.
This guide to ERRATA, a set of HyperCard-based tools for response analysis and error diagnosis in language testing, is intended as a user manual and general reference and designed to be used with the software (not included here). It has three parts. The first is a brief survey of computational techniques available for dealing with student test responses, including: editing markup that identifies spelling, capitalization, and accent errors and extra, missing, or out-of-order words; pattern matching for rapid identification of specific grammatical errors, keyword searches, and easy specification of alternate answers; and error-tolerant parsing, which puts error diagnosis under control of a grammar and dictionary of the target language. The second section is a user's manual and tutorial guide, describing ERRATA and offering examples of its use. Section three is a reference manual useful to anyone with unusual analysis requirements or wanting to tailor-make responses analyses. Installation and technical information is also included, and complete program code is appended. (MSE)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Students; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Illinois Univ., Urbana. Language Learning Lab.
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