Methods for Automated Essay Analysis (Expired)
- Author(s):
- Burstein, Jill; Marcu, Daniel; Chodorow, Martin; Leacock, Claudia; Andreyev, Vyacheslav
- Patent Issued:
- Jun 01, 2010
- Patent Number:
- 7,729,655
- Source:
- ETS Patent
- Document Type:
- Patent
- Family ID:
- 23000880
- Subject/Key Words:
- Patent, Expired Patent, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing, Automated Essay Scoring (AES), Automated Response Evaluation, Discourse Annotation
Abstract
An essay is analyzed automatically by accepting the essay and determining whether each of a predetermined set of features is present or absent in each sentence of the essay. For each sentence in the essay a probability that the sentence is a member of a certain discourse element category is calculated. The probability is based on the determinations of whether each feature in the set of features is present or absent. Furthermore, based on the calculated probabilities, a sentence is chosen as the choice for the discourse element category.