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Discover: S B Johnson on text pattern analysis

Found this linked from his blog. Text pattern analysis to grade essays? Come on. ;)

"The idea of a computer doing more sophisticated evaluations than tallying up multiple-choice answers has alarmed parents and teachers. If computers still can't figure out that those penis enlargement e-mails in their inboxes are spam, how can they possibly assess the merits of a book report on The Sun Also Rises? As it turns out, the process of training a machine to grade essays is similar to the process of training human graders. "

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