Patents by Inventor Randy Mark Kaplan

Randy Mark Kaplan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automatic essay scoring system using content-based techniques
    Patent number: 6115683
    Abstract: A system for carrying out a content-based process for automatically scoring essays is disclosed. The system includes a computer; a data storage device; a parse tree file stored in the data storage device, the parse tree file being representative of an essay in a parse tree format; a morphology stripping program; a concept extraction program for creating, on the basis of a morphology-stripped parse tree file, a phrasal node file; and a rule matching scoring program for scoring the essay on the basis of the phrasal node file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Educational Testing Service
    Inventors: Jill C. Burstein, Randy Mark Kaplan, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu