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Australia To Grade Written Essays In National Exam With Cognitive Computing

Posted by timothy on from the oh-this-will-work-well dept.

New submitter purnima writes: Australia keeps on giving and giving. Each year school kids in Australia sit The National Assessment Program (NAPLAN) which in part tests literacy. The exam includes a written page-long essay aimed at examining both language aptitude and literacy of students. Of course, human-marking of such essays is costly (twenty teacher-minutes per exam). So some bright spark has proposed that the essays be marked by computer. The government is convinced and the program is slated for the 2017 school year. Aside from the moral issues, is AI ready for this major task?

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  1. Testing literacy by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each year school kids in Australia sit The National Assessment Program (NAPLAN) which in part tests literacy.

    Can we get this AI to test Slashdot summaries?

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  2. Can we submit a poem? by WillAdams · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eye halve a spelling chequer
    It came with my pea sea
    It plainly marques four my revue
    Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

    Eye strike a key and type a word
    And weight four it two say
    Weather eye am wrong oar write
    It shows me strait a weigh.

    As soon as a mist ache is maid
    It nose bee fore two long
    And eye can put the error rite
    Its rare lea ever wrong.

    Eye have run this poem threw it
    I am shore your pleased two no
    Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
    My chequer tolled me sew.

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    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.