Talk:Automated essay scoring

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I am the original author of this article. I am employed by a vendor of AES services. I believe I was able to do this without conflict of interest. I wrote the article by combining and condensing information from 22 published articles, cited in the footnotes. I stuck to the "neutral point of view" and "no original research" guidelines.

AES is a burgeoning industry, surely noteworthy enough for a Wikipedia article. Probably most of the people who are qualified to write such an article work for one of the vendors. Gwil (talk) 17:44, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but you can't self-determine whether your information is biased or not. And, you have a conflict of interest by your position and that conflict cannot be avoided unless you quit.  This article suffers from several problems, but perhaps the biggest is that no information is given about how well computers perform in comparison to humans. There is no reason to spend so much time on how such a determination is made, people can look up inter-rater reliability if they want to.  The comment about the Turing test needs to go--the performance of AES programs is not a Turing test. Your assertion that only people involved in developing and selling AES products can write a WP article is not true in my opinion.  In fact, someone knowledgable but outside the business is required to be an unbiased and valid overview. You did well to post your background on the talk page and your initial effort is valuable. Robotczar (talk) 16:42, 13 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Disagree. If you have problems with the article, you can fix them.  Given that the technology is new, it only makes sense that those that are "inside" the industry are better qualified to understand the subject than those that are not.  Your comments seem to indicate a lack of good faith, despite the fact that the author declares his status within the industry and states his belief that he conformed to wikipedia policy.  From this Wikipedia reader's perspective, the article is a good start, is better than nothing and despite your criticism you haven't really contributed anything.  But my primary comment is that, as a reader, I'd be interested in seeing some examples comparing human grading to automated grading, most particularly "worst case scenarios" as my skeptical sense is that someone could conceivably craft an essay that would appear nonsensical to a human reader, but might score well by an automated system.  I'm thinking about the idea of throwing together a bunch of "buzz-words" that might fool an automated system into a high grade.  Also, if a system can be developed that auto-grades text, then it seems to me that another system might also be developed that auto-creates it, and what will the auto-grading system think of auto-created text?  One system creates gibberish and another system validates it as being "high quality"?  Finally it occurs to me that an automated grading system need not be reserved for purely end-of-quarter academic grading, and that automated grading systems could be made available online, for free, for use by students as a pre-submission check.  They also might be useful to professors as a pre-grading stage where the automated system highlights errors and deficiencies thereby making the process faster and more efficient for the human grader.Jonny Quick (talk) 21:04, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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