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Automated Essay Rater using Natural Language Processing

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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Year of Publication: 2017
Authors:
Shristi Drolia, Shrey Rupani, Pooja Agarwal, Abheejeet Singh
10.5120/ijca2017913766

Shristi Drolia, Shrey Rupani, Pooja Agarwal and Abheejeet Singh. Automated Essay Rater using Natural Language Processing. International Journal of Computer Applications 163(10):44-46, April 2017. BibTeX

@article{10.5120/ijca2017913766,
	author = {Shristi Drolia and Shrey Rupani and Pooja Agarwal and Abheejeet Singh},
	title = {Automated Essay Rater using Natural Language Processing},
	journal = {International Journal of Computer Applications},
	issue_date = {April 2017},
	volume = {163},
	number = {10},
	month = {Apr},
	year = {2017},
	issn = {0975-8887},
	pages = {44-46},
	numpages = {3},
	url = {http://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume163/number10/27435-2017913766},
	doi = {10.5120/ijca2017913766},
	publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
	address = {New York, USA}
}

Abstract

This paper proposes a regression based approach for automatically scoring essays that are written in English. We have used standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for extracting the features from the essays. We extensively evaluate our approach on a benchmark database and demonstrate that the result obtained is comparable to human evaluators while at a much faster rate. We also analyze how the essays are scored to get a better understanding about the proposed approach.

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Keywords

ETS, NLP, BOW, NLTK