Automatic assessment of the content of essays based on course materials

ITRE 2004 - 2nd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 126-130

  Kakkonen, Tuomo ^a   Sutinen, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer assisted essay assessment; Latent Semantic Analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED ESSAY ASSESSMENT; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS (LSA);

CURRICULA;

EID: 28344455453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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