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Application of Latent Semantic Analysis in English Composition Support

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Informatics and Management Science II

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 205))

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We start by characterizing English composition as a design activity and identify the components of a computer-based design environment to support it. Next, we explain how LSA can provide feedback on student compositions within this context, and how we have incorporated LSA as part of the corresponding system architecture. We show a prototype of a critiquing system we have built and report the preliminary findings comparing LSA with manual teacher feedback on a set of essays.

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  1. Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, China

    Jie Yang & Yushi Yang

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  2. Yushi Yang
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  1. , College of Elementary Education, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 400700, China, People's Republic

    Wenjiang Du

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Yang, J., Yang, Y. (2013). Application of Latent Semantic Analysis in English Composition Support. In: Du, W. (eds) Informatics and Management Science II. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 205. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4811-1_72

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