The vision of having effective algorithms score student essays should be appealing to the teacher, test publisher, and research scientist. Teachers would be freed of the bur den of reading and hand-scoring maybe hundreds of student papers and consequently would be more likely to assign written questions and probe for deeper understanding. Test publishers would be able to score essays for less cost and conceivably provide higher-quality assigned grades. Research scientists, especially readers of this journal, would find this to be a fascinating area, one that merges research from multiple dis ciplines and having many avenues yearning for exploration.
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