Scoring Essays Automatically Using Surface Features
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Surface features of essays include nonlinguistic characteristics such as total number of words per essay (essay length), sentence length, and word length as well as linguistic characteristics such as the total number of grammatical errors, the types of grammatical errors, or the kinds of grammatical constructions (e.g., passive or active) that appear in an essay. This study examines the feasibility of using linguistic and nonlinguistic surface characteristics in an automatic procedure for predicting essay scores. It builds on earlier work by R.M. Kaplan, Burstein, Lu, B. Kaplan, Wolff (1995) Page (1966) and Page and Petersen (1995).
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تاریخ انتشار 1998