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EMNLP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Organization in Student Essays
Automated essay scoring is one of the most important educational applications of natural language processing. Recently, researchers have begun exploring methods of scoring essays ...
Isaac Persing, Alan Davis, Vincent Ng
AIEDU
2004
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13 years 11 months ago
Using Intelligent Feedback to Improve Sourcing and Integration in Students' 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...
ANLP
1997
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14 years 28 days ago
An Automatic Scoring System For Advanced Placement Biology Essays
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...
DEXAW
2004
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Automated Japanese Essay Scoring System: Jess
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...
Tsunenori Ishioka, Masayuki Kameda
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Advanced Capabilities for Evaluating Student Writing: Detecting Off-Topic Essays Without Topic-Specific Training
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...
Jill Burstein, Derrick Higgins