Imogen Grumley Traynor


2020

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“What is on your mind?” Automated Scoring of Mindreading in Childhood and Early Adolescence
Venelin Kovatchev | Phillip Smith | Mark Lee | Imogen Grumley Traynor | Irene Luque Aguilera | Rory Devine
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

In this paper we present the first work on the automated scoring of mindreading ability in middle childhood and early adolescence. We create MIND-CA, a new corpus of 11,311 question-answer pairs in English from 1,066 children aged from 7 to 14. We perform machine learning experiments and carry out extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation. We obtain promising results, demonstrating the applicability of state-of-the-art NLP solutions to a new domain and task.