An overview of three approaches to scoring written essays by computer

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 7, Issue 26, 2001, Pages

  Rudner, Lawrence ^a   Gagne, Phill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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