User:Jburstein

Jill Burstein is a Managing Principal Research Scientist in ETS's R&D Division. Her background and expertise is in computational linguistics with a focus on education technology for writing, reading, and teacher professional development. She holds 13 patents for educational technology inventions. For writing-based technology, her inventions include e-rater®, an automated essay scoring system, an essay-based discourse analysis system, and a style feedback capability - all used in CriterionSM, ETS' online essay evaluation product. In more recent work, she is pursuing research to develop automated systems for detection of discourse coherence and source use in test-taker and student writing. She is the Principal Investigator on a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, entitled: Technology-Assisted Generation of Linguistically-Relevant Instructional Activities to Support ELLs in Content and Language Learning in the Content Areas. The grant research focuses on the development of a tool (the Language Muse Activity Palette) that uses NLP supporting curriculum development through automated generation of classroom activities targeting English learners in content area, K-12 classrooms. Dr. Burstein received her B.A. in Linguistics and Spanish from New York University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.