Eval — An Expert System for Evaluating Written Reports

As an assignment for the course ‘Verbal Communication’, undergraduates in their fourth year of an Electrical Engineering degree were asked to write reports evaluating three microcomputers. What was unusual for this particular class was that their ‘microcomputer evaluation reports’ were then evaluated by a microcomputer. This article describes a simple ‘expert system’ which assists the tutor in the evaluation of written reports.