COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF ESSAY CONTENT FOR AUTOMATED SCORE PREDICTION: A PROTOTYPE AUTOMATED SCORING SYSTEM FOR GMAT ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT ESSAYS

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 1998, Issue 1, 1998, Pages i-67

  Burstein, Jill ^a   Braden Harder, Lisa ^a   Chodorow, Martin ^a   Hua, Shuyi ^a   Kaplan, Bruce ^a   Kukich, Karen ^a   Lu, Chi ^a   Nolan, James ^a   Rock, Don ^a   Wolff, Susanne ^a  

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EID: 85164483551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1998.tb01764.x     Document Type: Article

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