Michael Heilman

Automated Analysis of Text in Graduate School Recommendations

2015 · ETS Research Report Series

Graduate school recommendations are an important part of admissions in higher education, and natural language processing may be able to provide objective and consistent analyses of recommendation texts to complement readings by faculty and admissions …

A Robust Microservice Architecture for Scaling Automated Scoring Applications

2018 · ETS Research Report Series

Abstract We present a microservice architecture for large‐scale automated scoring applications. Our architecture builds on the open‐source Apache Storm framework and facilitates the development of robust, scalable automated scoring applications that can easily be extended …

Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions

2018 · KiltHub Repository

We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and effective method for modeling pairs of semantically related sentences. To efficiently …

Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation

2018 · Figshare

We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank them. We use manually written rules to perform a sequence of …

Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments

2018 · Figshare

We address the problem of part-of-speech tagging for English data from the popular microblogging service Twitter. We develop a tagset, annotate data, develop features, and report tagging results nearing 90% accuracy. The data and tools …