The Development and Evaluation of Automatic Grading System of Japanese Summary

Abstract

Summary writing is an effective foreign language teaching method. Though, it is difficult to achieve on the teaching process, since instructors do not have sufficient time for individual detailed evaluation and feedback. Following with the Japanese macro rating standards, the micro rating and application research develops slowly in the limited way of subjective analysis to evaluate the aspects of the summary. Little is focused on high operational, comprehensive, accurate, and objective scoring method. In this paper, based on the macro scoring theory of Japanese summary, and a Japanese automatic scoring method from the micro perspective, we develop an objective quantitative automatic scoring system for Japanese summary. The system is evaluated and validated by comparing with the scores of Japanese instructors. The results show that the system has certain reliability and accuracy.