Chinese Argumentative Writing Quality Evaluation Based on Multi-perspective Modeling

Abstract

Automated essay scoring is a task that replaces manual grading for students’ essays,where rich semantics,rigorous organization,and reasonable logic are important considering factors.Most previous studies only consider the semantics or organization of the essay from a single perspective,lacking considering higher-level factors such as logic.Therefore,this paper proposes a multi-perspective evaluation framework(MPE) to more objective and reliable evaluate the essay from semantics,organization,and logic.MPE first utilizes the pre-trained model to encode sentence and obtain three levels semantic information to evaluate the essay's semantic expression.Then,it combines sentence function identification and paragraph function identification to evaluate the essay′s organization.Moreover,MPE evaluates the essay's logic by calculating the coherence between paragraphs.Finally,the framework scores the essay by integrating these three evaluation perspectives.Experimental results show that the proposed multi-perspective evaluation framework can effectively score the essays at various qualities,outperforming all the baselines.

Keywords

• multi-perspective|essay score|argumentation|xlnet|global coherence