Automatic Essay Grading in Portuguese: a systematic mapping of literature

Abstract


Language proficiency is a skill that must be worked on throughout a person's life and, in Brazil, ENEM is an exam that evaluates this skill through written proposals. There are many challenges for teachers to work efficiently with this type of textual evaluation in the classroom and automatic assessment is one option to assist this process. In this context, a systematic literature mapping was carried out in order to get an overview of the state of the art on automatic essays evaluation for Portuguese. We have found out that there is much to be explored in the area, such as to deal with many linguistic aspects related to the competences evaluated by ENEM.
Keywords: Automatic Essay Grading, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, ENEM

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Published
2020-11-24
COSTA, Luciana; OLIVEIRA, Elaine Harada Teixeira de; CASTRO JÚNIOR, Alberto. Automatic Essay Grading in Portuguese: a systematic mapping of literature. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION (SBIE), 31. , 2020, Online. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2020 . p. 1403-1412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2020.1403.