Automated essay scoring is one of the most important educational applications of natural language processing. Recently, researchers have begun exploring methods of scoring essays ...
Learning and reasoning from multiple documents requires students to employ the skills of sourcing (i.e., attending to and citing sources) and information integration (i.e., making ...
Mary Anne Britt, Peter M. Wiemer-Hastings, Aaron A...
This paper describes a prceXype for automatically scoring College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Biology essays.I. The scoring technique used in this study was based on a previous ...
Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu, Randy M. Kap...
We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system named jess. The system evaluates an essay from three features: (1) Rhetoric -- ease of reading, diversity of vocabular...
We have developed a method to identify when a student essay is off-topic, i.e. the essay does not respond to the test question topic. This task is motivated by a real-world problem...