Automated Essay Scoring with Ontology based on Text Mining and NLTK tools

Abstract

One of the common learning activities used in educational levels and disciplines is essay writing. The problems of the essay writing activities are time-consuming, concerns in producing immediate result and/or feedback from teachers to students, and the teachers tend to be subjective in grading the essay activities. The study aims to apply the preliminary approach forautomatically generating the domain concept ontology in essays using OntoGen and applied natural language processing algorithms using NLTK (Natural Language Tool Kit) that enhance the teachers essay grading.