Cloze deletion prediction
2019-02-25
A cloze deletion test is a form of language test where a sentence (or paragraph) is given to the test taker with blanks for missing words. The student is expected to fill in a “correct” word in the blanks. I compare the difference between an LSTM (Long-Short term memory) neural network with that of a Bidirectional LSTM. Later the two news sources (described in Section 2) are compared to see which data set is easier to predict. Then I explore tuning the dropout parameter to see how overfitting can be improved. Finally the predictions are analyzed to see which sentences are easy to predict.