@inproceedings{wang-etal-2017-discourse,
title = "Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the {R}hetorical {S}tructure {T}heory Framework",
author = "Wang, Xinhao and
Bruno, James and
Molloy, Hillary and
Evanini, Keelan and
Zechner, Klaus",
editor = "Barzilay, Regina and
Kan, Min-Yen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P17-2041",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-2041",
pages = "263--268",
abstract = "The availability of the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) Discourse Treebank has spurred substantial research into discourse analysis of written texts; however, limited research has been conducted to date on RST annotation and parsing of spoken language, in particular, non-native spontaneous speech. Considering that the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scoring rubrics for assessments of spoken language, we initiated a research effort to obtain RST annotations of a large number of non-native spoken responses from a standardized assessment of academic English proficiency. The resulting inter-annotator kappa agreements on the three different levels of Span, Nuclearity, and Relation are 0.848, 0.766, and 0.653, respectively. Furthermore, a set of features was explored to evaluate the discourse structure of non-native spontaneous speech based on these annotations; the highest performing feature resulted in a correlation of 0.612 with scores of discourse coherence provided by expert human raters.",
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%A Zechner, Klaus
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%8 July
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%P 263-268
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[Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework](https://aclanthology.org/P17-2041) (Wang et al., ACL 2017)
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