Automatic essay scoring using NLP

It is a known fact that any update in the history of educational sector has always been a positive impact in the livelihood of people towards technology. Our project is one such a kind where rating essays is the major criteria we want to work on. Essay evaluation is considered as a systematic way to give rating to the essays written. Automatic essay scoring is a process of grading essays without human intervention. The computer systems are trained using technical, artificial intelligence architectures where natural language processing comes into picture. The process of making machine resembles to the human intelligence and to work, as if as a human could is the main motive of natural language processing. Under this criterion, we have chosen a part of educational preview to build a system that is capable of rating written work, namely essays. Our project aims to provide a solution that evaluates essays as an automatic process. The basic idea here is to develop a software system that can be beneficial to educational institutions, business organizations, researchers, etc. Automatic essay scoring has a powerful gain over making it work, because it helps in reduction of manual work, gives a scope for every element without bias, also act as a key role in being time-efficient. There are past approaches in finding a way to develop an automated system to score essays using regression analysis, convolution neural networks, while we worked through transformer-based model, named BERT.