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Automated essay scoring

Bob mentioned the usage of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to do automated essay scoring. Surprisingly, the scores of the tool (IEA) agreed (a.k.a., were as good and as bad) with human experts "as accurately as expert scores agreed with each other". Had I known this before, I probably had spent more time doing text analysis of "good essays" than writing sample essays for my GRE test!

If you're interested in this stuff, take a look at the paper here: http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~pfoltz/reprints/Edmedia99.html

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