Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has been quite popular and is being widely used. However, lack of appropriate methodology for rating nonnative English speakers' essays has meant a lopsided advancement in this field. In this paper, we report initial results of our experiments with nonnative AES that learns from manual evaluation of nonnative essays. For this purpose, we conducted an exercise in which essays written by nonnative English speakers in test environment were rated both manually and by the automated system designed for the experiment. In the process, we experimented with a few features to learn about nuances linked to nonnative evaluation. The proposed methodology of automated essay evaluation has yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.750 with the manual evaluation.

arXiv:1706.03335 [cs] Citation Key: nigam2017 <标题>: 探索面向非英语母语者的自动化作文评分 <AI Smry>: Initial results of experiments with nonnative AES that learns from manual evaluation of nonnative essays are reported, and the proposed methodology of automated essay evaluation has yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.750 with the manual evaluation.