Automated Essay Scoring: A Survey of the State of the Art

Automated Essay Scoring: A Survey of the State of the Art

Zixuan Ke, Vincent Ng

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey track. Pages 6300-6308. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/879

Despite being investigated for over 50 years, the task of automated essay scoring is far from being solved. Nevertheless, it continues to draw a lot of attention in the natural language processing community in part because of its commercial and educational values as well as the associated research challenges. This paper presents an overview of the major milestones made in automated essay scoring research since its inception.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: NLP Applications and Tools