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title = "Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs",
author = "Somasundaran, Swapna and
Riordan, Brian and
Gyawali, Binod and
Yoon, Su-Youn",
editor = "Matsumoto, Yuji and
Prasad, Rashmi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of {COLING} 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers",
month = dec,
year = "2016",
address = "Osaka, Japan",
publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/C16-1148",
pages = "1568--1578",
abstract = "This work investigates whether the development of ideas in writing can be captured by graph properties derived from the text. Focusing on student essays, we represent the essay as a graph, and encode a variety of graph properties including PageRank as features for modeling essay scores related to quality of development. We demonstrate that our approach improves on a state-of-the-art system on the task of holistic scoring of persuasive essays and on the task of scoring narrative essays along the development dimension.",
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%A Somasundaran, Swapna
%A Riordan, Brian
%A Gyawali, Binod
%A Yoon, Su-Youn
%Y Matsumoto, Yuji
%Y Prasad, Rashmi
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Markdown (Informal)
[Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs](https://aclanthology.org/C16-1148) (Somasundaran et al., COLING 2016)
ACL
- Swapna Somasundaran, Brian Riordan, Binod Gyawali, and Su-Youn Yoon. 2016. Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1568–1578, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.