Scoring method and system for divergent thinking test

A scoring method for a divergent thinking test, to be implemented by a computer which obtains a submitted answer that corresponds to a selected one of a plurality of test questions of the divergent thinking test, the method comprising:

• (A) storing a word list in a database of the computer, the word list including a plurality of words which are obtained from Chinese linguistic corpus data of different sources, and a plurality of word vectors which correspond respectively to the plurality of words;
• (B) storing a plurality of word vector combinations (113) in the database of the computer, each of the plurality of word vector combinations corresponding to a respective one of the test questions and including a plurality of benchmark nouns which represent non-creativeness and each of which corresponds to one of the word vectors that corresponds to one of the plurality of words in the word list conforming with the benchmark noun;
• (C) by an answer processing module of the computer, extracting at least one keyword from the submitted answer, and looking up, in the word list, one of the word vectors that corresponds to one of the plurality of words which conforms with the at least one keyword;
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• (D) by an originality scoring module of the computer, obtaining, from the database of the computer, one of the plurality of word vector combinations that corresponds to the selected one of the test questions, and calculating, for each of the plurality of benchmark nouns of the one of the plurality of word vector combinations thus obtained, a semantic distance between said at least one keyword in the submitted answer and the benchmark noun based on said one of the word vectors that corresponds to the at least one keyword and said one of the word vectors that corresponds to the benchmark noun, and calculating an originality score based on the semantic distances thus calculated respectively for the plurality of benchmark nouns.