Professor A. A. Pandit, from  VJTI, Mumbai, India will discuss Automated Text Evaluation for Instructors.  The seminar will be held in Room 100, J. S. Speed Auditorium at 3:30 p.m.   A reception will be held in J.S. Speed Foyer at 3:00 p.m.

Automated Text Evaluation for Instructors

Speaker : Prof. A. A. Pandit, VJTI, Mumbai, India

Abstract

Automated Text Evaluation was developed to evaluate subjective answers. We have attempted to use LSA / LSI (tokenization, stop word removal and stemming), SVD for identifying the important dimensions and also as dimensionality reduction technique. Based on the singular value decomposition a query vector projection was identified in the reduced dimension space. The cosine similarity was obtained between the query vector and each document vector.   Method was applied for the answers having a definite flow of information where the sequence in which the points appeared did not matter. The initial results are encouraging and has potential for many domains.

Bio

Prof. A. A. Pandit has obtained her M.Sc. in Physics from Univ. of Mumbai and also an M.S. in EE from Univ of Louisville in 1985. She has a varied experience in teaching (computer engineering, information technology and management students at undergraduate and master’s level.) She has also worked in the industry for about 31/2 years and has been working with Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute for past 13 years. She is the chairperson of Association of computer enthusiasts, and also of the social group of the institute. She has mentored several students for ACM programming contests, IBM’s TGMC Great minds challenge project contest (Students have won in top 20 for 2 consecutive years) and Microsoft’s student to business contest where her students have managed to be in top 5 in the country. She has also guided several undergraduate and postgraduate students in various areas.