Knowing Right from Wrong: Should We Use More Complex Models for Automatic Short-Answer Scoring in Bahasa Indonesia?

Ali Akbar Septiandri, Yosef Ardhito Winatmoko, Ilham Firdausi Putra


Abstract
We compare three solutions to UKARA 1.0 challenge on automated short-answer scoring: single classical, ensemble classical, and deep learning. The task is to classify given answers to two questions, whether they are right or wrong. While recent development shows increasing model complexity to push the benchmark performances, they tend to be resource-demanding with mundane improvement. For the UKARA task, we found that bag-of-words and classical machine learning approaches can compete with ensemble models and Bi-LSTM model with pre-trained word2vec embedding from 200 million words. In this case, the single classical machine learning achieved less than 2% difference in F1 compared to the deep learning approach with 1/18 time for model training.
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2020.sustainlp-1.1
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Proceedings of SustaiNLP: Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing
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November
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2020
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Online
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Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Angela Fan, Vered Shwartz, Goran Glavaš, Shafiq Joty, Alex Wang, Thomas Wolf
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sustainlp
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–7
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.sustainlp-1.1
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10.18653/v1/2020.sustainlp-1.1
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Ali Akbar Septiandri, Yosef Ardhito Winatmoko, and Ilham Firdausi Putra. 2020. Knowing Right from Wrong: Should We Use More Complex Models for Automatic Short-Answer Scoring in Bahasa Indonesia?. In Proceedings of SustaiNLP: Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing, pages 1–7, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Knowing Right from Wrong: Should We Use More Complex Models for Automatic Short-Answer Scoring in Bahasa Indonesia? (Septiandri et al., sustainlp 2020)
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