Automated Annotation
- Author(s):
- Burstein, Jill; Marcu, Daniel
- Patent Issued:
- Oct 24, 2006
- Patent Number:
- 7,127,208
- Source:
- ETS Patent
- Document Type:
- Patent
- Family ID:
- 29999066
- Subject/Key Words:
- Patent, Active Patent, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Automated Response Evaluation, Discourse Annotation, Machine Learning, Lexical Cohesion
Abstract
To automatically annotate an essay, a sentence of the essay is identified and a feature associated with the sentence is determined. In addition, a probability of the sentence being a discourse element is determined by mapping the feature to a model. The model having been generated by a machine learning application based on at least one annotated essay. Furthermore, the essay is annotated based on the probability.