Criterion- Online Essay Evaluation- An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays (PDF)外文文献.pdf

SM Criterion Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays Jill Burstein Martin Chodorow Claudia Leacock Educational Testing Service Department of Psychology Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, 18E Hunter College Rosedale Road, 18E Princeton, NJ 08541 695 Park Avenue Princeton, NJ 08541 jburstein@ New York, NY 10021 cleacock@ martin.chodorow@ Abstract 2. Application Description This paper describes a deployed educational technology application: the CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Criterion contains two complementary applications that Service, a web-based system that provides automated are based on natural language processing (NLP) methods. scoring and evaluation of student essays. Criterion has The scoring application, e-rater, extracts linguistically- two complementary applications: E-rater , an automated based features from an essay and uses a statistical model of essay scoring system and Critique Writing Analysis how these features are related to overall writing quality to Tools, a suite of programs that detect errors in grammar, assign a holistic score to the ess