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Writing Instructor, Skeptical of Automated Grading, Pits Machine vs. Machine

The Babel generator, which Mr. Perelman built with a team of students from MIT and Harvard University, can generate essays from scratch using as many as three keywords. For this essay, Mr. Perelman has entered only one keyword: "privacy." With the click of a button, the program produced a string of bloated sentences that, though grammatically correct and structurally sound, have no coherent meaning. Not to humans, anyway. But Mr. Perelman is not trying to impress humans. He is trying to fool machines.

http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-Instructor-Sk eptical/146211/ [chronicle.com]

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