The project AKTeur aimed at establishing an interdisciplinary cooperation network and a broad technological basis for automatic coding of free text formats in different scenarios. To this end, an interdisciplinary co-operation network was founded, consisting of psychologists, pedagogues and computer scientists.

Two exemplary application scenarios from educational measurement served to conduct respective research. For instance, automatic language processing procedures will be implemented. To enable automated assessment, closed answer formats were often applied in the field, e. g. multiple-choice. A downside of such approaches is an unavoidable loss of information even at the outset, owing to categorisation. On the other hand, free text formats allowed for an elaborate and content – valid measurement of competencies as well as the estimation of several facets of a writing product. Automated coding of open responses could moreover provide for graded assessments (partial credit) and confidence values respectively weighting of individual assessments.