Automated Japanese essay scoring system:jess

Abstract

We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system named jess. The system evaluates an essay from three features: (1) Rhetoric | ease of read-ing, diversity of vocabulary, percentage of big words (long, dicult words), and percentage of passive sen-tences, (2) Organization | characteristics associated with the orderly presentation of ideas, such as rhetori-cal features and linguistic cues, (3) Contents | vocab-ulary related to the topic, such as relevant information and precise or specialized vocabulary. The nal eval-uated score is calculated by deducting from a perfect score assigned by a learning process using editorials