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Chen, Lei; Zechner, Klaus; Yoon, Su-Youn; Evanini, Keelan; Wang, Xinhao; Loukina, Anatassia; Tap, Jidong; Davis, Lawrence; Lee, Chong Min; Ma, Min; Mundowsky, Robert; Lu, Chi; Leong, Chee Wee; Gyawali, Binod – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
This research report provides an overview of the R&D efforts at Educational Testing Service related to its capability for automated scoring of nonnative spontaneous speech with the "SpeechRater"? automated scoring service since its initial version was deployed in 2006. While most aspects of this R&D work have been published in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Test Scoring Machines, Speech Tests
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Chen, Jing; Zhang, Mo; Bejar, Isaac I. – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
Automated essay scoring (AES) generally computes essay scores as a function of macrofeatures derived from a set of microfeatures extracted from the text using natural language processing (NLP). In the "e-rater"® automated scoring engine, developed at "Educational Testing Service" (ETS) for the automated scoring of essays, each…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Automation, Essay Tests
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Blanchard, Daniel; Tetreault, Joel; Higgins, Derrick; Cahill, Aoife; Chodorow, Martin – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This report presents work on the development of a new corpus of non-native English writing. It will be useful for the task of native language identification, as well as grammatical error detection and correction, and automatic essay scoring. In this report, the corpus is described in detail.
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Tests
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Higgins, Derrick; Futagi, Yoko; Deane, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This paper reports on the process of modifying the ModelCreator item generation system to produce output in multiple languages. In particular, Japanese and Spanish are now supported in addition to English. The addition of multilingual functionality was considerably facilitated by the general formulation of our natural language generation system,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Software, Japanese, Spanish