ASSESSING WRITING FLUENCY OF NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENT FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING - How to Automatically Evaluate the Fluency in English Essay

Min-Chul Yang, Min-Jeong Kim, Hyoung-Gyu Lee, Hae-Chang Rim

2012

Abstract

Automated essay scoring (AES) systems have provided a computer-based writing assessment comparable to expert raters. However, the existing systems are inadequate to assess the writing fluency of non-English-speaking students, while they detect grammatical errors relatively well. The writing fluency is one of the important criteria in essay scoring, because most of non-English-speaking students have much difficulty in expressing their thoughts in English. In this paper, we propose an automated essay scoring system focusing on assessing the writing fluency by considering the quantitative factors such as vocabulary, perplexity in a sentence, diversity of sentence structures and grammatical relations. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the performance in automated essay scoring.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yang M., Kim M., Lee H. and Rim H. (2012). ASSESSING WRITING FLUENCY OF NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENT FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING - How to Automatically Evaluate the Fluency in English Essay . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-07-5, pages 83-87. DOI: 10.5220/0003898200830087

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu12,
author={Min-Chul Yang and Min-Jeong Kim and Hyoung-Gyu Lee and Hae-Chang Rim},
title={ASSESSING WRITING FLUENCY OF NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENT FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING - How to Automatically Evaluate the Fluency in English Essay},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2012},
pages={83-87},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003898200830087},
isbn={978-989-8565-07-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - ASSESSING WRITING FLUENCY OF NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING STUDENT FOR AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING - How to Automatically Evaluate the Fluency in English Essay
SN - 978-989-8565-07-5
AU - Yang M.
AU - Kim M.
AU - Lee H.
AU - Rim H.
PY - 2012
SP - 83
EP - 87
DO - 10.5220/0003898200830087