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Sensory analysis with consumers using Free-Comment : analyses, performances and extensions
2021
Free-Comment (FC) consists in panelists describing the products using their own terms. Despite its benefits, notably the circumvention of limitations inherent to pre-established lists of sensory descriptors, FC remains rarely used because its performances are not well documented and its analyses and range of application remain limited. This thesis aims to overpass these limitations, highlighting the benefits and the potency of FC and thus put it in the spotlight for sensory analysis with consumers.For the pretreatment of FC data, a semi-automatized procedure is proposed. It enables the practitioners to extract an a posteriori list of sensory descriptors with a compromise between minimizing …
Framing automatic grading techniques for open-ended questionnaires responses. A short survey
2021
The assessment of students' performances is one of the essential components of teaching activities, and it poses different challenges to teachers and instructors, especially when considering the grading of responses to open-ended questions (i.e., short-answers or essays). Open-ended tasks allow a more in-depth assessment of students' learning levels, but their evaluation and grading are time-consuming and prone to subjective bias. For these reasons, automatic grading techniques have been studied for a long time, focusing mainly on short-answers rather than long essays. Given the growing popularity of Massive Online Open Courses and the shifting from physical to virtual classrooms environmen…
Sensory evaluation with consumers revisited thanks to Free-Comment
2021
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