Memories of Terror: Essays on Recent History is an interesting collection essays that engages marginalized World War II stories.

This paper presents an approach for automatic grading of essays. Student essays are compared against a model or key essay provided by the teacher. The similarity between a student essay and the model essay is measured by the cosine of their contained angle in an n-dimensional semantic space. The model essay is preprocessed by removing stopwords, extracting keywords, assigning weights to keyword...

We show how the Barzilay and Lapata entitybased coherence algorithm (2008) can be applied to a new, noisy data domain – student essays. We demonstrate that by combining Barzilay and Lapata’s entity-based features with novel features related to grammar errors and word usage, one can greatly improve the performance of automated coherence prediction for student essays for different populations.

This paper presents an unsupervised sentiment analysis approach for extracting professional preferences of users from natural language essays in a career recommendation scenario. Our system first extracts terms facilitating career recommendation such as objects, activities, hobbies, and places from the essays. Then, it applies a lexicon-based sentiment analysis approach to assign polarities rep...