DOMAIN SPECIFIC AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING USING CLOUD BASED NLP API

Abstract

The paper presents a methodology and an application framework (PUAnalyzeThis) that makes use of MeaningCloud API to automatically extract entities, concepts, relations, etc. and calculate scores and grades based on their relevance to a preliminary created topics graph. These topic graphs are either to be created by the teacher or automatically generated by scanning a certain amount of sample texts in the subject area. A prototype has been developed and tested with essays in the field of Computational Linguistics for informatics students at the University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”.