Automatically Grading the Use of Language in Learner Summaries
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چکیده
A summary is a short clear description that gives the main facts or ideas about something. Summaries are widely used in traditional teaching as an educational diagnostic strategy to infer comprehension, or how much information from text is retained in memory. From its early beginning Computer Supported Learning Systems research has faced open-ended learners’ response evaluation. Global summary grading includes partial discourse assessment on relevant issues such as coherence, cohesion, comprehension, adequacy and use of language. This paper describes the procedure followed searching for the best available approach to model the use of language grading of learner summaries written in Basque language.
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