Ronan Cummins


2018

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The Effect of Adding Authorship Knowledge in Automated Text Scoring
Meng Zhang | Xie Chen | Ronan Cummins | Øistein E. Andersen | Ted Briscoe
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Some language exams have multiple writing tasks. When a learner writes multiple texts in a language exam, it is not surprising that the quality of these texts tends to be similar, and the existing automated text scoring (ATS) systems do not explicitly model this similarity. In this paper, we suggest that it could be useful to include the other texts written by this learner in the same exam as extra references in an ATS system. We propose various approaches of fusing information from multiple tasks and pass this authorship knowledge into our ATS model on six different datasets. We show that this can positively affect the model performance at a global level.

2016

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Unsupervised Modeling of Topical Relevance in L2 Learner Text
Ronan Cummins | Helen Yannakoudakis | Ted Briscoe
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Sentence Similarity Measures for Fine-Grained Estimation of Topical Relevance in Learner Essays
Marek Rei | Ronan Cummins
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Constrained Multi-Task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring
Ronan Cummins | Meng Zhang | Ted Briscoe
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2015

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Evaluating the performance of Automated Text Scoring systems
Helen Yannakoudakis | Ronan Cummins
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications