short answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofshortandanswer
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short
adjective
uk/ʃɔːt/us/ʃɔːrt/
small in length, distance, ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofshortandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Automated evaluation techniques will supportshortanswergrading, as well as automated essay grading.
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Theshortansweris that the classical tradition is not monolithic : different philosophers give different answers.
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Theshortanswer, of course, is that the 1983 reform failed to fully achieve its goals.
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Theshortanswerto this question is no, but the emphasis and possibilities of some modelling work may be changed.
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However, multiple choice questions are not as natural asshortanswerquestions, since they are primarily designed for ease of grading.
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Participating designers responded to an e-mail sent to them each day containing fiveshortanswerquestions designed to take only a few minutes to complete.
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Many systems extract ashortanswerfrom a region by looking for a specific entity type based on the question.
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Theshortansweris that they adjusted rapidly.
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So ashortansweris unlikely to convince.
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Theshortanswerfor many progressives was that industry should become a kind of representative democracy with a constitution and civil liberties for all participants.
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The questionnaires took various formats depending on the type of response required, for example,shortanswer, multiple choice, or quantifying opinions or attitudes.
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I think theshortansweris: two empty continents.
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Subjects were required to provide ashortanswerto questions, which aimed to elicit articles plus nouns.
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Theshortansweris that we simply do not know, and the available data cannot help us.
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Theshortansweris yes, assuming a reasonable level of intelligence and persistence on the part of the reader.
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Theshortansweris that one who does so makes moral errors and, if they are frequent enough, loses theoretical as well as practical authority.
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Butshortanswerreading comprehension tests require short answers (phrases).
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Thus, we conjecture that grammatical or structural relations are needed to achieve high performance onshortanswerextraction.
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