Automated Scoring and Assessment

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Newsletter #12

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• Automatic Stance Classification of Argumentative Essays

Isaac Persing

• Automatic Text Scoring Using Neural Networks

Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Helen Yannakoudakis, and Marek Rei

• Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring

Ronan Cummins, Meng Zhang, and Ted Briscoe

• Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy

Md Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, and Tamara Sumner

• Predicting Student Essay Structure

Isaac Persing

• Sequential Short-Text Classification with Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks

Ji Young Lee and Franck Dernoncourt

• Using Context to Predict the Purpose of Argumentative Writing Revisions

Fan Zhang and Diane Litman

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Newsletter #11

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• Analyzing Learners ‘Writing Fluency Based on Language Model

Po-­Lin Chen and Shih­-Hung Wu

• Exploring the Usage of Existing Plagiarism Tools for Automated Student Assessment for Java Program

Sonal Jain, Mayuri Singhal, and Axita Shah

• Information Theoretical and Statistical Features for Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection

Rashedur Rahman

• Regression based automated essay scoring

Sai Srivatsa R, Anirud Thyagarajan, and Plaban Kumar Bhomick

• Tracking the Evolution of Written Language Competence: an NLP-based Approach

Stefan Richter, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta, and Giulia Venturi

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Newsletter #9

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• An Automated Scoring Tool for Korean Supply-type Items Based on Semi-Supervised Learning

Minah Cheon, Hyeong-Won Seo, Jae-Hoon Kim, Eun-Hee Noh, Kyung-Hee Sung, and Eun-Yong Lim

• Automatic Coding of Short Text Responses via Clustering in Educational Assessment

Fabian Zehner, Christine Sälzer, and Frank Goldhammer

• Automatic Grading of Short Answers for MOOC via Semi – supervised Document Clustering

Shumin Jing

• Flexible Domain Adaptation for Automated Essay Scoring Using Correlated Linear Regression

Peter Phandi, Kian Ming A. Chai, and Hwee Tou Ng

• Integrating Process and Product Data: The Case of an Automated Writing Evaluation System

Chaitanya Ramineni, Tiago Caliço, and Chen Li

• Machine Learning for Holistic Evaluation of Scientific Essays

Simon Hughes, Dylan Blaum, Mary Anne Britt, Peter Hastings, and Patricia Wallace

• Sentence selection for automatic scoring of Mandarin proficiency

Jiahong Yuan, Xiaoying Xu, Wei Lai, Weiping Ye, Xinru Zhao, and Mark Liberman

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Newsletter #8

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• Effective Feature Integration for Automated Short Answer Scoring

Keisuke Sakaguchi, Michael Heilman, and Nitin Madnani

• Matrix Factorization with Knowledge Graph Propagation for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding

Yun-Nung Chen, William Yang Wang, Anatole Gershman, and Alexander Rudnicky

• Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays

Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng

• Predicting the Difficulty of Language Proficiency Tests

Lisa Beinborn, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych

• Semi-automated typical error annotation for learner English essays: integrating frameworks

Andrey Kutuzov and Elizaveta Kuzmenko

• Short Answer Grading: When Sorting Helps and When it Doesn’t

Ulrike Pado and Cornelia Kiefer

• Using Shallow Syntactic Features to Measure Influences of L1 and Proficiency Level in EFL Writings

Andrea Horbach, Jonathan Poitz, and Alexis Palmer

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Newsletter #7

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• A Hierarchical Classification Approach to Automated Essay Scoring

Danielle S. McNamara, Scott A. Crossley, Rod D.Roscoe, Laura K. Allen, and Jianmin Dai

• The Eras and Trends of Automatic Short Answer Grading

Steven Burrows, Iryna Gurevych, and Benno Stein

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Newsletter #6

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• Computer-assisted Revision in Spanish Academic Texts: Peer-assessment

Carmen López Ferrero, Irene Renau, Rogelio Nazar, and Sergi Torner

• Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection using N-gram Classes

Imene Bensalem, Paolo Rosso, and Salim Chikhi

• Keystroke Patterns as Prosody in Digital Writings: A Case Study with Deceptive Reviews and Essays

Ritwik Banerjee, Song Feng, Jun Seok Kang, and Yejin Choi

• Linguistic microfeatures to predict L2 writing proficiency: A case study in Automated Writing Evaluation

Scott A. Crossley, Kristopher Kyle, Laura K. Allen, Liang Guo, and Danielle S. McNamara

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Newsletter #2

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• Powergrading: a Clustering Approach to Amplify Human Effort for Short Answer Grading

Sumit Basu, Chuck Jacobs, and Lucy Vanderwende

• Automated Essay Scoring by Maximizing Human-Machine Agreement

Hongbo Chen and Ben He

• On the Effectiveness of Using Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Tree Kernels for Automatic Assessment of Essays

Yllias Chali and Sadid A. Hasan