An Automated System for Essay Scoring of Online Exams in Arabic based on   Stemming Techniques and Levenshtein Edit Operations
  In this article, an automated system is proposed for essay scoring in Arabic language for online exams based on stemming techniques and Levenshtein edit operations. An online exam has been developed on the proposed mechanisms, exploiting the capabilities of light and heavy stemming. The implemented online grading system has shown to be an efficient tool for automated scoring of essay questions. 
Emad Fawzi Al-Shalabi
cs.IR cs.CL