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cs.CL2016★ 121 cited
Automated assessment of non-native learner essays: Investigating the role of linguistic features
Sowmya Vajjala
Automatic essay scoring (AES) refers to the process of scoring free text responses to given prompts, considering human grader scores as the gold standard. Writing such essays is an…
cs.CL2016★ 36 cited
A Readable Read: Automatic Assessment of Language Learning Materials based on Linguistic Complexity
Ildikó Pilán, Sowmya Vajjala, Elena Volodina
Corpora and web texts can become a rich language learning resource if we have a means of assessing whether they are linguistically appropriate for learners at a given proficiency l…
cs.CL2016★ 19 cited
Readability-based Sentence Ranking for Evaluating Text Simplification
Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers
We propose a new method for evaluating the readability of simplified sentences through pair-wise ranking. The validity of the method is established through in-corpus and cross-corp…