Automated Essay Grading System using NLP Techniques 
Pramit Shetty1, Kaushal Yadav2, Prithvi Kunder3
1Mr. Pramit Shetty*, Student Department of Computer Science, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
2Mr. Kaushal R. Yadav, Student, Department of Computer Science, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
3Mr. Prithvi Kunder, Student, Department of Computer Science, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Manuscript received on June 01, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on June 08, 2020. | Manuscript published on June 30, 2020. | PP: 1033-1042 | Volume-9 Issue-5, June 2020. | Retrieval Number: E9880069520/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.E9880.069520
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Abstract: The purpose of the study is to develop an automated essay grading system (AES) which can grade students essays based on various factors. Our proposed system performs grading of essays based on two features. Simple features consist of finding syntactic errors such as spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, punctuations and sentence proportions. Complex features consist of finding semantic errors through discourse analysis, thematic analysis and detection of undesirable style of writing. Many existing AES systems fail to consider the semantic parts of the essay which is addressed in this study. Calculation of score would be done based on what is specified in rubrics. The proposed system is evaluated using datasets from kaggle. The accuracy of model and obtained results show an agreement with teachers’ grading. This gives us an indication that the model can be deployed for assessment of students’ essay, thereby leading to reduction in time, efforts and cost for evaluating an essay.
Keywords: Discourse analysis, kappa scores, LSTM, thematic analysis