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%T Auxiliary Information for Semantic Clustering of Assessment Items
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%A Richburg, Aquia
%A Walker, Marcus
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%Y Ormerod, Christopher
%Y Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen
%S Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers
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Markdown (Informal)
[Auxiliary Information for Semantic Clustering of Assessment Items](https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-main.38/) (Hunsberger et al., AIME-Con 2026)
ACL
- Josiah Hunsberger, Aquia Richburg, and Marcus Walker. 2026. Auxiliary Information for Semantic Clustering of Assessment Items. In Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers, pages 345–354, Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).