Does Continued Pretraining on a Learner Corpus Improve Automated Essay Scoring on English Proficiency Tests? Evidence from EFCAMDAT

arXiv:2605.25924 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-25

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, 10 tables, including references and appendices

Code: https://github.com/tanloong/neosca

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automated Essay Scoring — 9× in this paper
• Transferability — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Transformer Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Analyzer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• First Certificate in English — 1× in this paper
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Quadratic Weighted Kappa — 1× in this paper
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach

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