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title = "Analysing Rhetorical Structure as a Key Feature of Summary Coherence",
author = "{\v{S}}najder, Jan and
Sladoljev-Agejev, Tamara and
Koli{\'c} Vehovec, Svjetlana",
editor = "Yannakoudakis, Helen and
Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Leacock, Claudia and
Madnani, Nitin and
Pil{\'a}n, Ildik{\'o} and
Zesch, Torsten",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-4405",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-4405",
pages = "46--51",
abstract = "We present a model for automatic scoring of coherence based on comparing the rhetorical structure (RS) of college student summaries in L2 (English) against expert summaries. Coherence is conceptualised as a construct consisting of the rhetorical relation and its arguments. Comparison with expert-assigned scores shows that RS scores correlate with both cohesion and coherence. Furthermore, RS scores improve the accuracy of a regression model for cohesion score prediction.",
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%A Kolić Vehovec, Svjetlana
%Y Yannakoudakis, Helen
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Leacock, Claudia
%Y Madnani, Nitin
%Y Pilán, Ildikó
%Y Zesch, Torsten
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%D 2019
%8 August
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%C Florence, Italy
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%X We present a model for automatic scoring of coherence based on comparing the rhetorical structure (RS) of college student summaries in L2 (English) against expert summaries. Coherence is conceptualised as a construct consisting of the rhetorical relation and its arguments. Comparison with expert-assigned scores shows that RS scores correlate with both cohesion and coherence. Furthermore, RS scores improve the accuracy of a regression model for cohesion score prediction.
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%P 46-51
Markdown (Informal)
[Analysing Rhetorical Structure as a Key Feature of Summary Coherence](https://aclanthology.org/W19-4405) (Šnajder et al., BEA 2019)
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