Determining Writing Genre: Towards a Rubric-based Approach to Automated Essay Grading

Author

Lam, Hon Wai ; Dillon, Tharam ; Chang, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Curtin Bus. Sch., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

22-25 March 2011

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

274

Abstract

A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay´s writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features present within those genres using various Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech tagging and Sentence Parsing. This paper explains the more common writing genres in student essays and describes the method in which essays in the narrative genre are identified.

Keywords

natural language processing; text analysis; descriptive essay; essay genres; expository essay; named entity recognition; narrative essay; natural language processing tools; persuasive essay; sentence parsing; speech tagging; textual content; writing genre; Context; Kirk field collapse effect; Natural language processing; Speech; Training; Writing; Automated Essay Grading; Natural Language Processing; Writing Genre;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Biopolis

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-313-1

Electronic_ISBN

1550-445X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2011.32

Filename

5763376