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In this paper, we present a text evaluation system for students to improve Basque or Spanish writing skills. The system uses Natural Language Processing techniques to evaluate essays by detecting specific measures. The application uses a client-server architecture and both the interface and the application itself are multilingual. The article also explains how the system can be adapted to evaluate Spanish essays written in Cuban schools.
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Castro-Castro, D. et al. (2008). A Multilingual Application for Automated Essay Scoring. In: Geffner, H., Prada, R., Machado Alexandre, I., David, N. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2008. IBERAMIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_25
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