Automatic Exercise Generation in an Essay Scoring System

Abstract

In this paper, we present an automated essay scoring system for language learners to improve their writing skills. The system combines statistical and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to compute the evaluation measures of the essays. It also incorporates a module to automatically generate multiple-choice questions (MCQ) to test the language level in Basque. The automatic generation of the options that constitute the MCQs is based on the linguistic information compiled in the rules written for a Basque grammar checker, which detects, among others, determiner errors.