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AEESA: An NLP-Powered Automatic English Essay Scoring System—Let AI Be a Fair Writing Evaluator

The AEESA project presents a complete automatic English essay scoring system that combines traditional NLP techniques with machine learning models, providing an efficient, consistent, and objective automated solution for the field of educational assessment.

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Published 2026-06-16 03:46Recent activity 2026-06-16 03:50Estimated read 6 min
AEESA: An NLP-Powered Automatic English Essay Scoring System—Let AI Be a Fair Writing Evaluator
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Introduction / Main Floor: AEESA: An NLP-Powered Automatic English Essay Scoring System—Let AI Be a Fair Writing Evaluator

The AEESA project presents a complete automatic English essay scoring system that combines traditional NLP techniques with machine learning models, providing an efficient, consistent, and objective automated solution for the field of educational assessment.

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Original Author and Source


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Project Background: Pain Points and Opportunities in Essay Scoring

In traditional educational settings, English essay scoring has always been a time-consuming and highly subjective task. Teachers need to read a large number of student essays, which not only involves heavy workload but also leads to difficulties in ensuring the consistency and fairness of scoring results due to potential differences in standards among different raters.

With the rapid development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, using machine learning to implement Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has become a feasible path to solve this problem. The AEESA project emerged in this context; it attempts to simulate the judgment process of human raters through algorithmic models, providing an efficient, objective, and scalable alternative for educational assessment.


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Core Technical Architecture

The AEESA project adopts a complete data processing and modeling workflow, covering the entire chain from raw text to final scoring:

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Data Collection and Preprocessing

The first step of the system is to collect and clean essay data. This includes basic operations such as removing irrelevant characters, unifying formats, and handling missing values, laying a clean data foundation for subsequent feature extraction.

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Feature Extraction: Integration of Traditional and Modern NLP Technologies

AEESA integrates multiple NLP technologies at the feature engineering level:

Traditional NLP Methods:

  • TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency): Used to identify important vocabulary in essays and measure the relative importance of words in specific documents
  • Syntactic Analysis: By analyzing sentence structures, it evaluates the grammatical complexity and language organization ability of essays

Modern Embedding Technologies:

  • Word Embeddings: Maps vocabulary to a low-dimensional continuous vector space, captures semantic relationships between words, enabling the system to understand the deep meaning of words rather than just surface matching

Advanced NLP Technologies:

  • Topic Modeling (e.g., LDA): Evaluates whether the essay content is relevant to the given topic and detects off-topic or partially off-topic phenomena
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Comparison of Machine Learning Models

One highlight of the AEESA project is the systematic comparison of multiple supervised learning models, including:

Model Features Applicable Scenarios
Ridge Regression Introduces L2 regularization to prevent overfitting Scenarios with high feature dimensions and medium sample sizes
Linear Regression Simple and intuitive, strong interpretability Scenarios where features and scores have a linear relationship
Decision Tree Non-linear modeling, clear rules Scenarios requiring explicit decision paths

By comparing the performance of these models, the project can identify the most suitable algorithm solution for the essay scoring task.


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Model Evaluation System

To ensure the reliability of the automatic scoring system, AEESA uses multiple evaluation metrics: