Finding the WRITE Stuff: Automatic Identification of Discourse Structure in Student Essays

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-39

  Bursteir, Jill ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^b   Knight, Kevin ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; DECISION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DECISION BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ESSAY BASED DISCOURSE; PROBABILITY BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141502450     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2003.1179191     Document Type: Article

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