System and Method for Automated Essay Authorship Authentication
AssigneeEssay Assay, Inc. dba Ecree
InventorsRobin Donaldson, Jamey Heit
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Abstract
The present invention is a computer-based method and system to provide a student of language arts or a language-arts program component automated feedback on an essay. Assignment Input including Essay Prompt, Key Themes, and a Sample Essay are loaded onto a computer device. Contemporaneously with a student's essay writing effort, a Function derives Specific Metric Values for each of the Assignment Input and Student Input, compares the values, and provides real-time writing prompts to the student based upon the Values' relative positions along a spectrum.
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A method of essay authorship authentication, comprising:
- receiving a pool of human-language-drafted essays of verified authorship from a single author from one or more devices;
- computing the presence of pre-defined metrics in said pool of human-language-drafted essays;
- computing a classification value for the pool of human-language-drafted essays for said single author;
- computing a classification value for a single document that does not belong to said pool of human-language-drafted essays, the classification value being related to the proportionality of metrics deviance of said pool of human-language-drafted essays to the metrics deviance of the single document;
- comparing the classification value of said single document to the classification value of said pool of human-language-drafted essays of said single author;
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- delivering to a user an assessment based upon said comparison as to whether said single document was drafted by said single author.
A system of essay authorship authentication, comprising:
- a server having a data processor in communication with a user interface;
- the server receiving a pool of human-language-drafted essays of verified authorship from a single author from one or more devices;
- the server computing the presence of pre-defined metrics in said pool of human-language-drafted essays;
- said server computing a classification value for the pool of human-language-drafted essays for said single author;
- the server computing a classification value for a single document that does not belong to said pool of human-language-drafted essays, the classification value being related to the proportionality of metrics deviance of said pool of human-language-drafted essays to the metrics deviance of the single document;
- the server comparing the classification value of said single document to the classification value of said pool of human-language-drafted essays of said single author;
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- said server delivering an assessment to a user as to whether said single document was drafted by said single author.
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