Automated Essay Scoring System

Abstract

Automatic Essay Grader is a system that scores and evaluates essays. In this project, the focus is on evaluating and scoring essays written by students. The project has two complementary phases, first to detect errors in grammar, usage, semantics, coherence, length etc. and a scorer/grader, an automated essay scoring system. Natural language processing techniques are used to implement out automatic essay grader. Essays are crucial testing tools for assessing academic achievement, integration of ideas and ability to recall, but are expensive and time consuming to grade manually. Therefore, there is a need and a huge potential for such automated evaluation and grading systems. The problem statement is that access to hand scored essay set is provided. It is required to build, train and test scoring engines against a wide variety of essay set. The objective is to implement an open source efficient essay scoring model and then analyze and compare the efficiency and cost of automated scoring to that of human graders.