Word: program
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...program, a professor must grade several papers ranging from excellent to poor and input them into the computer. The essay grader assigns high scores to those essays that use word combinations similar to the sample high-scoring papers...
...computer program promises to help change all that. Developers of the Intelligent Essay Assessor claim it can grade essays as well as a human professor--but far more quickly and reliably...
...developers said test trials of the program have been positive...
...program plots millions of words in a "high-dimensional space"; synonyms are close together, while words rarely used in combination are far apart. That allows the software to recognize synonyms, making no distinction between "doctor" and "physician," for instance...
...essay grader can't not judge style or originality--the program works best with focused, fact-or content-based essay topics in disciplines like history, science and economics, Foltz said. In fact, highly original essays are rejected by the computer as irregular and must be graded by hand...