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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">mais</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Моделирование и анализ информационных систем</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1818-1015</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2313-5417</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Yaroslavl State University</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18255/1818-1015-2022-4-348-365</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">mais-1751</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Theory of Data</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Модель текста для автоматической оценки делового письма на заданную тему</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>A Model for Automated Business Writing Assessment</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8266-2283</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Зафиевский</surname><given-names>Даниил Дмитриевич</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Zafievsky</surname><given-names>Daniil Dmitrievich</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email xlink:type="simple">zafievsky@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6137-8643</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лагутина</surname><given-names>Надежда Станиславовна</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lagutina</surname><given-names>Nadezhda Stanislavona</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email xlink:type="simple">lagutinans@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8814-7696</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мельникова</surname><given-names>Оксана Андреевна</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Melnikova</surname><given-names>Oksana Andreyevna</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email xlink:type="simple">oam8108@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-4739</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Полетаев</surname><given-names>Анатолий Юрьевич</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Poletaev</surname><given-names>Anatoliy Yurievich</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email xlink:type="simple">anatoliy-poletaev@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Ярославский государственный университет им. П. Г. Демидова</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>348</fpage><lpage>365</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Зафиевский Д.Д., Лагутина Н.С., Мельникова О.А., Полетаев А.Ю., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Зафиевский Д.Д., Лагутина Н.С., Мельникова О.А., Полетаев А.Ю.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zafievsky D.D., Lagutina N.S., Melnikova O.A., Poletaev A.Y.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1751">https://www.mais-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1751</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье описана модель текста, предназначенная для автоматической оценки связного текста в виде письма на заданную тему. Параметры оценки сформулированы и формализованы в виде 14 критериев при помощи экспертов в области обучения английскому языку. Критерии включают параметры, относящиеся к анализу лексики, включая особенности предметной области, тематики текста, стилю и формату письма, средствам логической связи предложений. Авторами разработаны алгоритмы определения соответствующих числовых характеристик с использованием методов и инструментов автоматического анализа текстов. Алгоритмы основаны на анализе состава и структуры предложений, для чего используются, в том числе данные специализированных словарей. Характеристики ориентированы на проверку электронного делового письма, но могут быть адаптированы к анализу других письменных текстов, например, с помощью замены словарей. На основе разработанных алгоритмов создана система автоматической оценки текстов. Проведён эксперимент по анализу результатов работы этой системы на корпусе из 20 текстов, предварительно размеченных преподавателями английского языка. Автоматическая оценка и оценка экспертов сравнивались с помощью тепловых карт и технологии двумерного представления векторов UMAP, применённой к характеристическим векторам текстов. В большинстве случаев не было выявлено значимых различий между этими оценками, кроме того, автоматическая оценка оказалась более объективной. Таким образом, разработанная модель успешно справилась с поставленной задачей и может применяться для оценки текстов, написанных человеком. Результаты будут использованы в проекте автоматического построения языкового профиля учащегося. Достоинствами модели являются хорошая интерпретируемость получаемых результатов, объективность, перспективы развития.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This study is aimed at building an automated model for business writing assessment, based on 14 rubrics that integrate EFL teacher assessment frameworks and identify expected performance against various criteria (including language, task fulfillment, content knowledge, register, format, and cohesion). We developed algorithms for determining the corresponding numerical features using methods and tools for automatic text analysis. The algorithms are based on a syntactic analysis with the use of dictionaries. The model performance was subsequently evaluated on a corpus of 20 teacher-assessed business letters. Heat maps and UMAP results represent comparison between teachers’ and automated score reports. Results showed no significant discrepancies between teachers’ and automated score reports, yet detected bias in teachers’ reports. Findings suggest that the developed model has proved to be an efficient tool for natural language processing with high interpretability of the results, the roadmap for further improvement and a valid and unbiased alternative to teachers’ assessment. The results may lay the groundwork for developing an automatic students’ language profile. Although the model was specifically designed for business letter assessment, it can be easily adapted for assessing other writing tasks, e.g. by replacing dictionaries.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>автоматическая обработка текста</kwd><kwd>параметры текста</kwd><kwd>автоматизированная оценка эссе</kwd><kwd>деловое письмо</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>natural language processing</kwd><kwd>text features</kwd><kwd>automated essay scoring</kwd><kwd>business letter</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">A. Al-Bargi, "Exploring Online Writing Assessment Amid Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities from Teachers’ Perspectives”, Arab World English Journal, pp. 3-21, 2022.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">A. 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