Summary Scoring & Revision
The following application is our Researcher's Interface to the Summary
Scoring and Revision programs. This interface provides access to the underlying LSA measures,
e.g. cosine comparisons between the student summary and the original text &
expert summaries. You can also look at redundancy and repetition measures by checking
Sentence to Sentence Checks.
In an application designed for middle school students, the LSA measures are translated
into verbal feedback to assist students in revising and improving their summaries.
If you would like to use this interface please go to our program called
State the Essence!
In our first evaluation of this system, texts concerning alternative forms of
energy were summarized by middle school students.
In our second evaluation of this system, texts concerning pre-Columbian civilizations were
summarized by middle school students.
To see the texts, select from this list:
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Maya
Appropriate Technology
Coal
Petroleum
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
To evaluate a summary, please select a topic from the pulldown list below,
enter the student's initials, then enter the summary.
Then press the Submit Summary button.