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Meara, Paul; Rodgers, Catherine; Jacobs, Gabriel – System, 2000
Explores the potential of a neural network in language assessment. Nonnative speakers of French were asked to produce a short text in response to a picture stimulus. A neural network was trained to grade the text on the basis of codings. Results suggest that it may be possible to teach a neural network to mimic the judgments made by human markers.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Testing, French, Networks