Looking for a PHD researcher in machine learning for essay scoring
We are looking for a PhD researcher in Machine learning for essay scoring together with IDLab UGent.
Students regularly have to write essays throughout their curriculum. Essay scoring is a very time-consuming task for human evaluators. Moreover, the score and corresponding feedback is often only based on the final product, not taking into account the process of writing. This PhD project will investigate the automatic scoring and feedback generation (for the student and/or teacher) for essays, with specific attention to process based assessment.
The research will combine techniques from machine learning to model the learning task, with advanced natural language processing methods for text representation, and process modelling techniques. The student will be working with real data and will have the opportunity to contribute to a smarter education.
Besides doing research, the candidate is expected to participate in educational activities (participate in seminars, be involved in teaching, …).
