Dr. Vincent Ng Develops AI Essay Grading Program - Department of Computer Science - The University of Texas at Dallas – Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Via UT Dallas Mercury News Megan Zerez – For professors struggling to cope with stacks of papers to grade, new software -- developed by a UT Dallas researcher and powered by artificial intelligence -- may offer a long-term solution. Vincent Ng, a computer science professor who works with UT Dallas Human Language Technology Research Institute, is developing an automated grading system for longform essays. Ng said the goal of the technology is to remove the need for human graders altogether. "Essay grading is one of the very important applications of natural language processing," Ng said. "For one, it has a lot of commercial value. Grading essays requires an enormous amount of human labor, and these are hours that can be spent elsewhere in the classroom."