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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jill C Burstein, Howell, NJ (US);
Randy Mark Kaplan, West Chester, PA (US);
Susanne Wolff, New York, NY (US);
Chi Lu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704-1 ; 704-9 ; 434353 ;
Abstract
A system for carrying out a content-based process for automatically scoring essays is disclosed. The system includes a computer; a data storage device; a parse tree file stored in the data storage device, the parse tree file being representative of an essay in a parse tree format; a morphology stripping program; a concept extraction program for creating, on the basis of a morphology-stripped parse tree file, a phrasal node file; and a rule matching scoring program for scoring the essay on the basis of the phrasal node file.