Title :
Automatic Chinese Essay Scoring Using Connections between Concepts in Paragraphs
Author :
Chang, Tao-Hsing ; Lee, Chia-Hoang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung Univ. of Appl. Sci., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
Automatic essay scoring (AES) system is a very important research tool for educational studies. Many studies indicate that current AES systems should be able to analyze semantic characteristics of an essay and include more such features to score essays. This study proposes a novel method which uses the similarity between the paragraphic conceptual connections in different essays to predict the scores of essays. Preliminary experiments show that the paragraphic conceptual structure in an essay can be an efficient feature for scoring the essay.
Keywords :
natural language processing; automatic Chinese essay scoring; paragraphic conceptual connections; Computer science; Feature extraction; Humans; Joining processes; Natural languages; Phase measurement; Psychometric testing; Rhetoric; System testing; Writing; Chinese writings; automated essay scoring; concept hierarchy; paragraphic structure;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing, 2009. IALP '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3904-1
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2009.63
