Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs
Swapna Somasundaran, Brian Riordan, Binod Gyawali, Su‐Youn Yoon · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2016
This work investigates whether the development of ideas in writing can be captured by graph properties derived from the text. Focusing on student essays, we represent the essay as a graph, and encode a variety of graph properties including PageRank as features for modeling essay scores related to quality of development. We demonstrate that our approach improves on a state-of-the-art system on the task of holistic scoring of persuasive essays and on the task of scoring narrative essays along the development dimension.