Heuristics and Rule-Based Approach for Automated Marking Tool for ESL Writing
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Automated essay marking systems developed from late 1960’s attempted to prove that a computer can mark essays as good as any other human beings. This paper discusses an approach for developing an automated marking tool for English as a second language (ESL) and introduces heuristics and rulebased approach to detect grammatical errors in tenses in ESL essays. The results show that heuristics and rule-based approach is useful and can improve the effectiveness of automated essay marking tool for writing in ESL.
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