Difference between revisions of "TOEFL Synonym Questions (State of the art)"

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* 95% confidence interval calculated using [http://home.clara.net/sisa/onemean.htm Binomial Exact Test]
 
* table rows sorted in order of increasing percent correct
 
* table rows sorted in order of increasing percent correct

Revision as of 11:10, 11 May 2007

  • TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language
  • 80 multiple-choice synonym questions; 4 choices per question
  • introduced in Landauer and Dumais (1997)
  • subsequently used by many other researchers


Reference for algorithm Reference for experiment Algorithm Correct 95% confidence
Resnik (1995) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) hybrid 20.31% 12.89–31.83%
Leacock and Chodrow (1998) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) lexicon-based 21.88% 13.91–33.21%
Lin (1998) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) hybrid 24.06% 15.99–35.94%
Jiang and Conrath (1997) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) hybrid 25.00% 15.99–35.94%
Landauer and Dumais (1997) Landauer and Dumais (1997) corpus-based 64.38% 52.90–74.80%
Average non-English US college applicant Landauer and Dumais (1997) human 64.50% 53.01–74.88%
Turney (2001) Turney (2001) corpus-based 73.75% 62.71–82.96%
Hirst and St.-Onge (1998) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) lexicon-based 77.91% 68.17–87.11%
Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) Jarmasz and Szpakowicz (2003) lexicon-based 78.75% 68.17–87.11%
Terra and Clarke (2003) Terra and Clarke (2003) corpus-based 81.25% 70.97–89.11%
Rapp (2003) Rapp (2003) corpus-based 92.50% 84.39-97.20%
Turney et al. (2003) Turney et al. (2003) hybrid 97.50% 91.26–99.70%


  • 95% confidence interval calculated using Binomial Exact Test
  • table rows sorted in order of increasing percent correct