%L scholars16376 %X 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�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. © 2022 NSP. %O cited By 2 %N 5 %D 2022 %A Z.H. Amur %A Y.K. Hooi %P 1851-1858 %I Natural Sciences Publishing %J Information Sciences Letters %T State-of-the-Art: Assessing Semantic Similarity in Automated Short-Answer Grading Systems %R 10.18576/isl/110540 %V 11