Presentation 2021-09-16
Construction of Japanese Essay Data for Evaluating Automatic Essay Scoring System
Koichi Takeuchi, Masahiro Taguchi, Yoshihiko Inada, Masaya Iizuka, Tasuhiko Abo, Hitoshi Ueda,
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Abstract(in English) We construct Japanese essay data for evaluating automatic essay scoring system. The essays are written by Japanese native speakers for the wide range prompts and all the essays are graded by annotators. In this paper, we give an overview of the essay data and discuss what factors were considered in manual evaluation to clarify the issues involved in creating scored essay data. In manual evaluation, we set four evaluation criteria: comprehension, logic, validity, and writing ability. With a rubric based on the criteria, two raters assign scores to the essays. With evaluation results of inter-rater agreement for prompts, we discuss the stability of human rating on each evaluation criteria depending on the characteristics of prompts.
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Keyword(in English) automatic essay scoring / Japanese native speakers / evaluation criteria
Paper # NLC2021-15
Date of Issue 2021-09-09 (NLC)

Conference Information
Committee NLC
Conference Date 2021/9/16(1days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Online
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) The 18th Text Analytics Symposium
Chair Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Mitsuo Yoshida(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Takeshi Kobayakawa(NHK)
Secretary Mitsuo Yoshida(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takeshi Kobayakawa(Hiroshima Univ. of Economics)
Assistant Kanjin Takahashi(Sansan) / Ko Mitsuda(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Construction of Japanese Essay Data for Evaluating Automatic Essay Scoring System
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) automatic essay scoring
Keyword(2) Japanese native speakers
Keyword(3) evaluation criteria
1st Author's Name Koichi Takeuchi
1st Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masahiro Taguchi
2nd Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yoshihiko Inada
3rd Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
4th Author's Name Masaya Iizuka
4th Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
5th Author's Name Tasuhiko Abo
5th Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
6th Author's Name Hitoshi Ueda
6th Author's Affiliation Okayama University(Okayama Univ.)
Date 2021-09-16
Paper # NLC2021-15
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) NLC-178
Page pp.pp.40-44(NLC),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2021-09-09 (NLC)