Word: assessor
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...never tires halfway through a stack of essays. The upshot: in pretrial tests, E-Rater and a human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a computer-grading system similar to E-Rater. "It's to give students a chance to construct a response instead of just pointing at a bubble...
Sherry Meadows, a tax assessor in Mount Vernon, Ill., first considered long-term insurance in 1992 as her 50th birthday made her ponder old age. But she put it off, shocked by the high premiums and thinking she and husband John had some time. But by 1997, he was found to have Alzheimer's. Now Sherry's life is about loss--of John, 56, and of life as she knew it. Only work interrupts her constant vigil. There are no nights off from tending to John since she can't afford the $125-a-day fee for what has come...
...though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
...computer program promises to help change all that. Developers of the Intelligent Essay Assessor claim it can grade essays as well as a human professor--but far more quickly and reliably...
BORN: Feb. 14, 1945, Beaumont EDUCATION: Lamar U, B.S., 1968, M.Ed., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Floyd; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; tax assessor-collector POLITICAL CAREER: Chairman, Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1972-74; Tax assessor-collector, Jefferson County, 1977-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 21578, Beaumont...