Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Essays in Hindi Language

Large number of researchers consider essay as a tool to judge learning outcomes and intellectual capabilities and to assess the organized and integrated thoughts. Due to increase in the number of universities students and distance and ubiquitous e-learning approaches, the intention of using Computer-based Assessment Systems has rise rapidly in a decade. Manual grading of students' essays requires significant amount of time and hard work and also an expensive activity for educational institutions and need a practical solution to this task. The automated essay grading or evaluation system is solution to such need. So now-adays, most of the online competitive and universities exams are trying to evaluate the human written essays by examiners / teachers as well as by machines like automated essay grading system. Such system has to significantly focus on vocabulary and text syntax, and text semantics. The research paper focus on the existing automated essay grading systems, their functional technologies and proposes a methodology to overcome the issues related to them while evaluating such as grammatical and semantic error as well as influence of local and regional languages in Hindi essays.