After discussing the broad landscape of Short Answer Evaluation systems, the main characteristics and differences, we now turn to a comparison of two concrete systems, namely CoMiC-EN (Meurers et al., 2011a ) and the Texas system<cite> Mohler et al. (2011)</cite> , to explore what is involved in such a concrete comparison of two systems from different contexts. While CoMiC-EN was developed with meaning comparison in mind, the purpose of the Texas system is answer grading. We pick these two systems because they constitute recent and interesting instances of their respective fields and the corresponding data are freely available.