Essay Examination is one of many ways to evaluate the learning process of students. The Essay test can measure a student’s capability of memory and to develop an idea. With the vast development of Information Technology, an essay test is done in a more sophisticated way with a platform called e-learning. This research implemented an e-learning interface to conduct an essay test, starting with giving out questions, answering it and marking it. The system will generate an automatic mark, using the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) method by measuring the relevance of the key answer and the student’s answer. Before entering the LSA phase, the answer will go through pre-processing step which is cleansing, case folding, tokenization, stop word, convert negation and stemming. The result of the accuracy of this system compared to teacher’s manual assessment is 83.3%. Expectedly, this research will help teachers in making their assessment process more efficient.

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Masyarakat Kampung Nelayan Seberang Belawan sudah ada sejak 1957. Sejumlah nelayan awalnya menjadikan pinggiran hutan mangrove di Pesisir Belawan sebagai tempat singgah sementara selama melaut, namun seiring waktu kini berkembang menjadi perkampungan nelayan.  Kehidupan nelayan pesisir masih sangat tradisonal dan cenderung marginal dari kegiatan pembangunan. Mereka mengandalkan penghidupan dari hasil tangkapan laut seperti ikan, kepiting dan udang.  Keberadaan hutan mangrove yang berstatus hutan lindung dan hutan produksi terbatas di sekitar perkampungan nelayan belum banyak berdampak terhadap kesejahteraan.  Bahkan di tahun 2000an banyak yang memanfaatkan mangrove secara illegal untuk dibuat menjadi arang, sehingga menurunkan produktivitas tangkapan laut serta mengancam kelestarian lingkungan. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat dengan konsep Desa Binaan USU di Pesisir Belawan ini dirancang dengan tujuan untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan nelayan melalui pemanfaatan jasa lingkungan ekowisata hutan mangrove berbasis ekonomi masyarakat. Metoda yang digunakan LPPM USU yaitu memfasilitasi pembentukan kelembagaan wisata dengan pola kemitraan nelayan dan Dinas Kehutanan Provinsi Sumatera Utara serta pelatihan pengelolaan ekowisata. Analisis potensi wisata menunjukkan hutan mangrove sangat terbuka untuk dikembangkan menjadi ekowisata di Pesisir Belawan. Pengelolaan ekowisata diharapkan menjadi pintu akses masyarakat terhadap pemanfaatan hutan mangrove secara legal serta adanya alternatif penghidupan yang berkelanjutan.

This paper provides a classical interpretation of mathematics from terms to categories such as arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry. The background of interpretation is based on mathematics itself as reasoning, which contains systematic and structure. However, the mathematical term is recognized by them, but it comes with a variety of symbols and ways of interpretation. That interpretation is accumulated into universe of discourse which is a means of mathematics itself, and it states the mathematic.

Towards understanding the big data conceptually, it is necessary to understand data entirely. Understanding of data is not only directly related to the relationship between the sample and the population, but also to determine the form of approach and the process used. This is based on data dimensions that require in-depth consideration to be able to be the useful information in decision making, and become the helpful knowledge in the direction of policy in the Industry 4.0 era. Therefore this paper is built to briefly describe data.