Automaatika referaat (eng)
the Internet. Microcomputers permitted the generation of electronic text from a regular
keyboard and the internet provided a universal platform to submit text for review
(Shermis, Mzumara, Olson, & Harrington, 2001). Automated Essay Scoring 3
Automated essay scoring is a measurement technology in which computers
evaluate written work (Shermis & Burstein, 2003). Most of the initial applications have
been in English, but past work has been applied to Japanese (Kawate-Mierzejewska,
2003, March), Hebrew (Vantage Learning, 2001), and Bahasa Malay (Vantage Learning,
2002). Computers do not "understand" the written text being evaluated
Unlike humans, a computer cannot interpret the play on words, and infer that the
predicate in the answer (i.e., "ajar") is being cleverly used as a noun (i.e., "a jar").
What the computer does in an AES context is to analyze the written text into its
observable components. Different AES systems evaluate different numbers of these