Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading

A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay’s writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features p...

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Main Authors: Lam, Hon, Dillon, Tharam, Chang, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Chen Khong Tham
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45770
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description A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay’s writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features present within those genres using various Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech tagging and Sentence Parsing. This paper explains the more common writing genres in student essays and describes the method in which essays in the narrative genre are identified.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-457702023-02-02T07:57:34Z Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading Lam, Hon Dillon, Tharam Chang, Elizabeth Chen Khong Tham Fatos Xhafa Winston Seah Automated Essay Grading Natural Language Processing Writing Genre A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay’s writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features present within those genres using various Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech tagging and Sentence Parsing. This paper explains the more common writing genres in student essays and describes the method in which essays in the narrative genre are identified. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45770 10.1109/AINA.2011.32 IEEE restricted
spellingShingle Automated Essay Grading
Natural Language Processing
Writing Genre
Lam, Hon
Dillon, Tharam
Chang, Elizabeth
Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title_full Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title_fullStr Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title_full_unstemmed Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title_short Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
title_sort determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading
topic Automated Essay Grading
Natural Language Processing
Writing Genre
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45770