Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading

Lam, Hon; Dillon, Tharam; Chang, Elizabeth

doi:10.1109/AINA.2011.32

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Lam, Hon

Dillon, Tharam

Chang, Elizabeth

Date

2011

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Lam, Hon Wai (Sean) and Dillon, Tharam and Chang, Elizabeth. 2011. Determining writing genre: towards a rubric-based approach to automated essay grading, in IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Mar 22-25 2011. Singapore: IEEE.

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Proceedings of the IEEE 25th international conference on advanced information networking and applications (AINA 2011)

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IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2011)

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2011.32

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978-0-7695-4337-6

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Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute (DEBII)

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45770

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

A writing genre can be thought of as the style in which the writer chooses to present textual content to the reader. We distinguish four main types of essay genres namely Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive and Expository. An essay’s writing genre can be identified by searching for salient features present within those genres using various Natural Language Processing tools such as Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech tagging and Sentence Parsing. This paper explains the more common writing genres in student essays and describes the method in which essays in the narrative genre are identified.