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Jill Burstein is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and computer science fields. The scientist's work frequently addresses subfields such as safety research, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, health informatics, and education.

The main topics covered in their research include English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching and learning, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), the applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, ethical and social impacts of AI, writing and handwriting education, creativity in education and neuroscience, and online learning and analytics.

Jill Burstein has published in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Journal of Writing Analytics
  • Assessing Writing
  • Frontiers in Education
  • CALICO Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jill Burstein are:

  • "Responsible AI for Test Equity and Quality: The Duolingo English Test as a Case Study," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "From Pen to Pixel," 2024, CALICO Journal
  • "Digital-First Learning and Assessment Systems for the 21st Century," 2022, Frontiers in Education
  • "Across Performance Contexts: Using Automated Writing Evaluation to Explore Student Writing," 2022, The Journal of Writing Analytics
  • "Writing motivation: A validation study of self-judgment and performance," 2021, Assessing Writing

Jill Burstein collaborates regularly with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel F. McCaffrey
  • Ben Naismith
  • Steven Holtzman
  • Alina von Davier
  • Guangming Ling

Best Publications

  • Automated Essay Scoring With e-rater® V.2

    Yigal Attali;Jill Burstein

  • Automated Essay Scoring : A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

    Mark D. Shermis;Jill C. Burstein

  • Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation : Current Applications and New Directions

    Mark D. Shermis;Jill Burstein

  • Stumping e-rater:challenging the validity of automated essay scoring

    Donald E. Powers;Jill C. Burstein;Martin Chodorow;Mary E. Fowles

  • Automated essay evaluation: the criterion online writing service

    Jill Burstein;Martin Chodorow;Claudia Leacock

  • The E-rater® scoring engine: Automated essay scoring with natural language processing.

    Jill Burstein

  • Finding the WRITE stuff: automatic identification of discourse structure in student essays

    J. Burstein;D. Marcu;K. Knight

  • Automated Scoring Using A Hybrid Feature Identification Technique

    Jill Burstein;Karen Kukich;Susanne Wolff;Chi Lu

  • BEYOND ESSAY LENGTH: EVALUATING E-RATER®'S PERFORMANCE ON TOEFL® ESSAYS

    Martin Chodorow;Jill Burstein

  • Automated essay scoring for nonnative English speakers

    Jill Burstein;Martin Chodorow

  • Automated evaluation of essays and short answers

    Jill Burstein;Claudia Leacock;Richard Swartz

  • Criterion SM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays

    Jill Burstein;Martin Chodorow;Claudia Leacock

  • Evaluating Multiple Aspects of Coherence in Student Essays

    Derrick Higgins;Jill Burstein;Daniel Marcu;Claudia Gentile

  • Automated essay scoring

    Jill Burstein;Slava Andreyev;Chi Lu

  • Automated Essay Scoring: Writing Assessment and Instruction

    M.D. Shermis;J. Burstein;D. Higgins;K. Zechner

  • AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING WITH E‐RATER® V.2.0

    Yigal Attali;Jill Burstein

  • Enriching Automated Essay Scoring Using Discourse Marking.

    Jill Burstein;Karen Kukich;Susanne Wolff;Chi Lu

  • System and method for computer-based automatic essay scoring

    Jill C. Burstein;Lisa Braden-Harder;Martin S. Chodorow;Bruce A. Kaplan

  • The E-rater® Automated Essay Scoring System

    Jill Burstein;Joel Tetreault;Nitin Madnani

  • Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays

    Jill Burstein;Joel Tetreault;Slava Andreyev

  • Automated Essay Scoring with e-rater® v.2.0. Research Report. ETS RR-04-45.

    Yigal Attali;Jill Burstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Chodorow
Martin Chodorow City University of New York
Joel Tetreault
Joel Tetreault Yahoo (United Kingdom)
Daniel Marcu
Daniel Marcu University of Southern California
Daniel F. McCaffrey
Daniel F. McCaffrey Educational Testing Service
Judith M. Harackiewicz
Judith M. Harackiewicz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald A. Rock
Donald A. Rock Princeton University
Ted Pedersen
Ted Pedersen University of Minnesota
Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych Technical University of Darmstadt
Charles A. MacArthur
Charles A. MacArthur University of Delaware
Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight University of Southern California

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