CODAS as a Tool for Jurimetrical Research.
Lia Combrink-Kuiters, Richard V. De Mulder · 2005
The initial aim of the CODAS-system, which has been developed by our Centre for Computers and Law (CCL), was to select documents from legal databases using conceptual techniques. As a spin-off of this system, an application was developed to mark student's assignments containing open questions. This system has been used for educational purposes for some years now and the results are very satisfying both for teachers and students. Used in this way, the CODAS-system consists of two parts: one for finding similarities between digital documents - the Fraud Finder - and one for computer-assisted grading: the Text Grader . The Fraud Finder compares all the documents in a given set with each other and calculates a similarity score. The Text Grader sorts the documents according to how much they resemble certain selected example documents. [1]