Opportunities for natural language processing research in education

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5449 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 6-27

  Burstein, Jill ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated essay scoring and evaluation; Educational technology; English language learning; Natural language processing; Text adaptation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING AND EVALUATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEXT ADAPTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 67650513853     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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