no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein, Norbert Elliot, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Diane Napolitano, Slava Andreyev, Maxwell Schwartz
Writing Mentor is a free Google Docs add-on designed to provide feedback to struggling writers and help them improve their writing in a self-paced and self-regulated fashion.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Jill Burstein, Dan McCaffrey, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Guangming Ling
Writing is a challenge, especially for at-risk students who may lack the prerequisite writing skills required to persist in U. S. 4-year postsecondary (college) institutions.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Nitin Madnani, Anastassia Loukina, Alina von Davier, Jill Burstein, Aoife Cahill
Automated scoring of written and spoken responses is an NLP application that can significantly impact lives especially when deployed as part of high-stakes tests such as the GRE® and the TOEFL®.
no code implementations • TACL 2013 • Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein
We demonstrate a method of improving a seed sentiment lexicon developed on essay data by using a pivot-based paraphrasing system for lexical expansion coupled with sentiment profile enrichment using crowdsourcing.