C-rater: Automated Scoring of Short-Answer Questions.

C-rater is an automated scoring engine that has been developed to score responses to content-based short answer questions. It is "not" simply a string matching program— instead it uses predicate argument structure, pronominal reference, morphological analysis and synonyms to assign full or partial c...

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Published in:Computers & the Humanities Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 389 - 406
Main Authors: Leacock, Claudia, Chodorow, Martin
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Nov2003
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Summary:C-rater is an automated scoring engine that has been developed to score responses to content-based short answer questions. It is "not" simply a string matching program— instead it uses predicate argument structure, pronominal reference, morphological analysis and synonyms to assign full or partial credit to a short answer question. C-rater has been used in two studies: National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and a statewide assessment in Indiana. In both studies, c-rater agreed with human graders about 84% of the time.