OpenEssayist: Extractive Summarisation and Formative Assessment of Free-Text Essays
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OpenEssayist is a system which is currently under development. It aims to provide an effective automated interactive feedback system that yields an acceptable level of support for university students writing summative essays. The principal natural language processing technique currently employed is extractive summarisation using graphbased ranking algorithms. OpenEssayist will be piloted in September 2013 with UK Open University students following a Master’s programme of study.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013