A machine learning approach for identification of thesis and conclusion statements in student essays

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 455-467

  Burstein, Jill ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Discourse annotation; Essay evaluation; Machine learning; Text classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746105834     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025746505971     Document Type: Review

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