Chapter 9 discussed a linguistics program called latent semantic analysis (LSA), which evaluates essays. According to this discussion, the LSA program

a. is a direct application of Chomsky's linguistic theory.
b. is especially skilled at detecting creative answers to an essay question.
c. searches to see if the student's essay is semantically similar to the material that the student had read.
d. grades the essays according to their similarity to a well-established script.

Ans: c