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title = "Automatic Essay Scoring Incorporating Rating Schema via Reinforcement Learning",
author = "Wang, Yucheng and
Wei, Zhongyu and
Zhou, Yaqian and
Huang, Xuanjing",
editor = "Riloff, Ellen and
Chiang, David and
Hockenmaier, Julia and
Tsujii, Jun{'}ichi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct # "-" # nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D18-1090",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D18-1090",
pages = "791--797",
abstract = "Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of assigning grades to essays without human interference. Existing systems for AES are typically trained to predict the score of each single essay at a time without considering the rating schema. In order to address this issue, we propose a reinforcement learning framework for essay scoring that incorporates quadratic weighted kappa as guidance to optimize the scoring system. Experiment results on benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of our framework.",
}
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%T Automatic Essay Scoring Incorporating Rating Schema via Reinforcement Learning
%A Wang, Yucheng
%A Wei, Zhongyu
%A Zhou, Yaqian
%A Huang, Xuanjing
%Y Riloff, Ellen
%Y Chiang, David
%Y Hockenmaier, Julia
%Y Tsujii, Jun’ichi
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%D 2018
%8 oct nov
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
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%X Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of assigning grades to essays without human interference. Existing systems for AES are typically trained to predict the score of each single essay at a time without considering the rating schema. In order to address this issue, we propose a reinforcement learning framework for essay scoring that incorporates quadratic weighted kappa as guidance to optimize the scoring system. Experiment results on benchmark datasets show the effectiveness of our framework.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/D18-1090
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D18-1090
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Markdown (Informal)
[Automatic Essay Scoring Incorporating Rating Schema via Reinforcement Learning](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1090) (Wang et al., EMNLP 2018)
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