Roger Levy

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2023

Roger Levy wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2023; often with Jennifer Hu, Jonathan Malmaud, Judith Degen.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Ideas Mova took (1)

From the ideas ledger: an idea tried, kept or queued, or measured with no gain, and what it gave.

kept — Critical-span ablation as a validity check of course questions: remove the critical sentence; the student should fall to guessing on that question. Questions still answered right are guessable from elsewhere or from the options and should be fixed or marked. (STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension · critical-span ablation per lesson as the «key sentences removed» control (dba7f8c6e))

Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences (2023)
Scalar inferences ("some" implies "not all") vary a lot from one instance to another, and across scales such as "good, excellent".
STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension (2020) 1 idea kept
STARC is a scheme for four-option reading questions in which the options have fixed roles tied to marked text spans: A is right and rests on a «critical span»; B mentions the critical span but misunderstands it; C refers to a separate «distractor span»; D has no support in the text.