METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY ANALYSIS

Patent №

US 6,796,800

Granted

2004-09-28

Filed 2002

Owner

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10052380

An essay is analyzed automatically by accepting the essay and determining whether each of a predetermined set of features is present or absent in each sentence of the essay. For each sentence in the essay a probability that the sentence is a member of a certain discourse element category is calculated. The probability is based on the determinations of whether each feature in the set of features is present or absent. Furthermore, based on the calculated probabilities, a sentence is chosen as the choice for the discourse element category.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
Machine learning0.88
AI hardware0.24
Vision0.23
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

assignment · 126890879

Assignors

BURSTEIN, JILL, MARCU, DANIEL, ANDREYEV, VYACHESLAV, CHODOROW, MARTIN SANFORD, LEACOCK, CLAUDIA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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