Toward evaluation of writing style: Finding overly repetitive word use in student essays

10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 35-42

  Burstein, Jill ^a   Wolska, Magdalena ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTICS; AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING; DIAGNOSTIC FEEDBACK; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; GRADUATE SCHOOLS; GRAMMAR USAGE; NEW APPLICATIONS; STUDENT ESSAYS; STUDENT WRITING; WRITING STYLE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84873867855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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