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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2006
Applicants:
Jill C. Burstein, Princeton, NJ (US);
Daniel Marcu, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jill C. Burstein, Princeton, NJ (US);
Daniel Marcu, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
Assignee:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09B 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To automatically annotate an essay, a sentence of the essay is identified and a feature associated with the sentence is determined. In addition, a probability of the sentence being a discourse element is determined by mapping the feature to a model. The model having been generated by a machine learning application based on at least one annotated essay. Furthermore, the essay is annotated based on the probability.