№1, 2019
A METHOD FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF DISSERTATIONS
The article explores the international practice regarding the assessment of dissertation works. A method is proposed for automated assessment of dissertation works. In this regard, algorithms are developed for the automation of pre-examination. This method allows to determine the similarity of essential parts of the dissertation (the goal of dissertation, its tasks, chapters, obtained results, and published papers) automatically. For this porpose text mining technology that allows to define the semantic proximity of the texts is applied. An assesment is given to determine the accordance between proposed method and expert assessment (pp.3-15).
Keywords: dissertation thesis, text mining, automated assesment, expert assesment, fuzzy evaluation.
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