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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Michael Flor, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Hopewell, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/274 (2013.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for scoring written text based on use of idiomatic expressions, including reading pre-selected idiomatic expressions in a canonical form into memory, expanding idiomatic expressions from the canonical form, reading a written response into the memory, pre-processing the written response, searching the pre-processed written response for idiomatic expressions, and assigning a score to the written response. The score may be based at least in part on the number of idiomatic expressions in the written response. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.


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