This ASP.NET Core (.NET5) web application enables pairwise comparisons of texts.
Two texts are shown next to each other, and the user (an assessor) clicks the text that they consider 'best' according to criteria agreed upon beforehand. Using all comparisons made in the session, the system uses MCMC sampling (Markov chain Monte Carlo) to estimate theta values for the texts. These estimates are then used to determine the next two texts to be shown to the assessor.
This application uses Cito's modular Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) service framework which integrates with the upcoming first publication of the IMS CAT Standard (https://www.imsglobal.org/cat). The service framework will be separately published when the standard goes into Public Final stage.
The diagram on the right shows the project dependency diagram of the application (excluding the unit test projects). External (NuGet) dependencies are omitted.
The ASP.NET5 web application. The frontend is implemented using Razor Pages.
The main entry library to CAT-related apis, providing access to underlying selection algorithms.
The pairwise item selection algorithm. Uses Accord.NET (http://accord-framework.net/).
Contains the interfaces, (domain) models and helper functions used in CAT algorithms.
Contains IMS CAT Standard proxy classes, generated using the specification files at https://www.imsglobal.org/cat and https://www.imsglobal.org/question/index.html#version2.1.
The application uses RavenDB (https://ravendb.net/) for persistence. Configure access to your instance in appsettings.json.
- Build the solution in the IDE of your preference (JetBrains Rider, VS2019, VSCode)
- Configure your database
- Start the
Cito.Cat.Pairwise.Webproject, this also seeds 2 sample data sets. The start codes are 1234 and 0000 - Profit.
The solution should build without warnings. There are two unit test projects in the solution.