ASAP++: Enriching the ASAP Automated Essay Grading Dataset with Essay Attribute Scores (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Automated essay grading (AEG) is one of the most challenging activities in natural language processing (NLP). |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate the ASAP AEG dataset and use it to score different attributes of the essays. |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource is based on the ASAP++ dataset, which contains scores for different attributes of the essays, such as content, word choice, organization, sentence fluency, etc. |
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