Evaluating multiple aspects of coherence in student essays

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 185-192

  Higgins, Derrick ^a   Burstein, Jill ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^b   Gentile, Claudia ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE; RULE-BASED HEURISTICS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SENTENCE-BASED; STUDENT ESSAYS; STUDENT WRITING; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; SYSTEM IDENTIFY;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 85106812341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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