{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"On the Automatic Scoring of Handwritten Essays","authors":[{"name":"Sargur N. Srihari","slug":"sargur-n-srihari","given":"Sargur N.","family":"Srihari","affiliation":""},{"name":"Rohini K. Srihari","slug":"rohini-k-srihari","given":"Rohini K.","family":"Srihari","affiliation":""},{"name":"Pavithra Babu","slug":"pavithra-babu","given":"Pavithra","family":"Babu","affiliation":""},{"name":"Harish Srinivasan","slug":"harish-srinivasan","given":"Harish","family":"Srinivasan","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Automating the task of scoring short handwritten student essays is considered. The goal is to assign scores which are comparable to those of human scorers by coupling two AI technologies: optical handwriting recognition and automated essay scoring. The test-bed is that of essays written by children in reading comprehension tests. The process involves several image-level operations: removal of pre-printed matter, segmentation of handwritten text lines and extraction of words. Recognition constraints are provided by the reading passage, the question and the answer rubric. Scoring is based on using a vector space model and machine learning of parameters from a set of human-scored samples. System performance is comparable to that of scoring based on perfect manual transcription.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/463","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0463.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/463.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/bibtex/463","volume":{"slug":"2007","title":"Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2007","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/","year":2007,"location":"Hyderabad, India","dates":"","editors":"Ramon López de Mántaras","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":463,"pages":{"first":2880,"last":2883},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}