Automated essay evaluation includes receiving an essay in text form and determining, using a processor, curriculum data for the essay. The curriculum data includes evaluation criteria for the essay and specifies an instructor. A profile for the instructor including a writing preference for the instructor is retrieved. Using the processor, a plurality of queries for the essay can be generated according the curriculum data for the essay and the profile for the instructor. Using the processor executing an inference engine, a conclusion for each of the queries is determined according to confidence scores. The essay is scored according to the conclusions.