Automated Assessment of Finer-Grained Writing Conventions: A Case Study on Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

• In Event: Automated Scoring I

Abstract

We focus on the automatic detection of a fine-grained element that contributes to an essay’s Conventions score: pronoun-antecedent agreement errors. We first implement a solution on a small set of test cases and then describe our lessons learned when applying it to a large set of student essays.

Authors

• Honeiah Karimi, University of California – Santa, Barbara

• Amy Burkhardt, Cambium Assessment, Inc.

• Susan Lottridge, Cambium Assessment, Inc.