@article{scholars16376, publisher = {Natural Sciences Publishing}, year = {2022}, journal = {Information Sciences Letters}, note = {cited By 2}, pages = {1851--1858}, doi = {10.18576/isl/110540}, title = {State-of-the-Art: Assessing Semantic Similarity in Automated Short-Answer Grading Systems}, volume = {11}, number = {5}, issn = {20909551}, author = {Amur, Z. H. and Hooi, Y. K.}, abstract = {The use of semantic in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has sparked the interest of academics and businesses in various fields. One such field is Automated Short-answer Grading Systems (ASAGS) for automatically evaluating responses for similarity with the expected answer. ASAGS poses semantic challenges because the responses of a topic are in the responder{\^a}??s own words. This study is providing an in-depth analysis of work to improve the assessment of semantic similarity between corpora in natural language in the context of ASAGS. Three popular semantic approaches are corpus-based, knowledge-based, and deep learning are used to evaluate against the conventional methods in ASAGS. Finally, the gaps in knowledge are identified and new research areas are proposed. {\^A}{\copyright} 2022 NSP.}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139493366&doi=10.18576\%2fisl\%2f110540&partnerID=40&md5=06706c0295d8aea49907a94093c2581c} }