Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text
Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text
Getting the message across in RST-based text generation
Current research in natural language generation
Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Building natural language generation systems
Building natural language generation systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
The rhetorical parsing, summarization, and generation of natural language texts
The rhetorical parsing, summarization, and generation of natural language texts
The rhetorical parsing, summarization, and generation of natural language texts
The rhetorical parsing, summarization, and generation of natural language texts
A reformulation of Rule 2 of centering theory
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on computational anaphora resolution
Functional centering: grounding referential coherence in information structure
Computational Linguistics
Evaluation of text coherence for electronic essay scoring systems
Natural Language Engineering
ILEX: an architecture for a dynamic hypertext generation system
Natural Language Engineering
Three generative, lexicalised models for statistical parsing
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A centering approach to pronouns
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Planning coherent multisentential text
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving machine learning approaches to coreference resolution
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Probabilistic text structuring: experiments with sentence ordering
ACL '03 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Optimizing Referential Coherence in Text Generation
Computational Linguistics
Centering: A Parametric Theory and Its Instantiations
Computational Linguistics
An integrated framework for text planning and pronominalisation
INLG '00 Proceedings of the first international conference on Natural language generation - Volume 14
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Computing locally coherent discourses
ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Modeling local coherence: an entity-based approach
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A bottom-up approach to sentence ordering for multi-document summarization
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic Evaluation of Information Ordering: Kendall's Tau
Computational Linguistics
Discourse generation using utility-trained coherence models
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Sentence ordering with manifold-based classification in multi-document summarization
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Measuring variability in sentence ordering for news summarization
ENLG '07 Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Evaluating Centering for sentence ordering in two new domains
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Inferring strategies for sentence ordering in multidocument news summarization
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Revisiting readability: a unified framework for predicting text quality
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Entity-based local coherence modelling using topological fields
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Empirical methods in natural language generation
To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context?: a study on word order
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A coherence model based on syntactic patterns
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
On generating coherent multilingual descriptions of museum objects from semantic web ontologies
INLG '12 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference
Generating natural language descriptions from OWL ontologies: the natural OWL system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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In this article we discuss several metrics of coherence defined using centering theory and investigate the usefulness of such metrics for information ordering in automatic text generation. We estimate empirically which is the most promising metric and how useful this metric is using a general methodology applied on several corpora. Our main result is that the simplest metric (which relies exclusively on NOCB transitions) sets a robust baseline that cannot be outperformed by other metrics which make use of additional centering-based features. This baseline can be used for the development of both text-to-text and concept-to-text generation systems.