AUTOMATED ESSAY ANNOTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

An automatic discourse analysis application (ADAA) (180) is used to automatically annotate an essay. The ADAA (180) includes a user interface (300), which receives and essays and forwards the essay to feature extractor (302) and receives the annotated essay from a discourse analysis modeler (318). The feature extractor (302) includes a position identifier (304), lexical item identifier (306), punctuation identifier (314), and a rhetorical relation identifier (316).