Analysing Rhetorical Structure as a Key Feature of Summary Coherence

Jan Šnajder, Tamara Sladoljev-Agejev, Svjetlana Kolić Vehovec


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.
Anthology ID:
W19-4405
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Month:
August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina Kochmar, Claudia Leacock, Nitin Madnani, Ildikó Pilán, Torsten Zesch
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BEA
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SIGEDU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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46–51
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-4405
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-4405
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Jan Šnajder, Tamara Sladoljev-Agejev, and Svjetlana Kolić Vehovec. 2019. Analysing Rhetorical Structure as a Key Feature of Summary Coherence. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 46–51, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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