Automatic Essay Scoring System Using Content-Based Techniques (Expired)
- Author(s):
- Burstein, Jill; Kaplan, Randy M.; Wolff, Susanne; Lu, Chi
- Patent Issued:
- Sep 05, 2000
- Patent Number:
- 6,115,683
- Source:
- ETS Patent
- Document Type:
- Patent
- Family ID:
- 25251262
- Subject/Key Words:
- Patent, Expired Patent, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Content Assessment, Domain-Referenced Testing, Scoring Rules, Computer-Based Scoring, Data Storage, Tree Format
Abstract
A system for carrying out a content-based process for automatically scoring essays is disclosed. The system includes a computer; a data storage device; a parse tree file stored in the data storage device, the parse tree file being representative of an essay in a parse tree format; a morphology stripping program; a concept extraction program for creating, on the basis of a morphology-stripped parse tree file, a phrasal node file; and a rule matching scoring program for scoring the essay on the basis of the phrasal node file.