Text Mining and Automated Scoring
Michael Flor, Jiangang Hao · Methodology of educational measurement and assessment · 2021
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is playing an increasingly important role in learning and assessments. Some typical applications of NLP in education include automated scoring, automated item generation, conversation-based assessments, writing assistants, text mining for education, and so on. In this chapter, we aim at introducing some basics of NLP through two typical applications in educational contexts, text mining and automated scoring. We hope readers can get an overall picture of NLP and get familiarized with some basic tools for handling natural language data, which may serve as stepping stones for their future work with NLP.