US Patent 11087097 Automatic item generation for passage-based assessment

Patent 11087097 was granted and assigned to ACT (test) on August, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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ACT (test)

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ACT (test)

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

11087097

Date of Patent

August 10, 2021

Patent Application Number

20171127

Date Filed

November 27, 2017

Patent abstract

A computer-implemented method for automatic item generation in an digital examination that includes obtaining a first string of text, the first string of text being organized based on a linguistic context, selecting a first textual term from the first string of text, identifying a first set of linguistic characteristics corresponding to the first textual term, obtaining a second textual term exhibiting at least one linguistic characteristic that is different from any linguistic characteristic of the first set of linguistic characteristics, and generating a second string of text by replacing the first textual term in the first string of text with the second textual term.