Shermis, a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio, supervised the Hewlett Foundation's contest on automated essay scoring and wrote a paper about the experiment.

舍米斯是俄亥俄州阿克伦大学的一名教授，他监督了休利特基金会关于论文自动评分的比赛，并写了一篇关于这个实验的论文。