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An Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring System
September/October 2010 (vol. 25 no. 5)
pp. 61-67
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Yen-Yu Chen, Chien-Liang Liu, Tao-Hsing Chang, Chia-Hoang Lee, "An Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring System," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 61-67, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIS.2010.3,
author = {Yen-Yu Chen and Chien-Liang Liu and Tao-Hsing Chang and Chia-Hoang Lee},
title = {An Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring System},
journal ={IEEE Intelligent Systems},
volume = {25},
number = {5},
issn = {1541-1672},
year = {2010},
pages = {61-67},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2010.3},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Yen-Yu Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu
Chien-Liang Liu, National Chiao Tung University , Hsinchu
Tao-Hsing Chang, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung
Chia-Hoang Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu
The proposed automated essay-scoring system uses an unsupervised-learning approach based on a voting algorithm. Experiments show that this approach works well compared to supervised-learning approaches.

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Index Terms:
machine learning, natural language processing, intelligent systems
Citation:
Yen-Yu Chen, Chien-Liang Liu, Tao-Hsing Chang, Chia-Hoang Lee, "An Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring System," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 61-67, Sept.-Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/MIS.2010.3
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