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Summarization beyond sentence extraction: a probabilistic approach to sentence compression
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Sentence reduction for automatic text summarization
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Headline generation based on statistical translation
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Modeling local coherence: An entity-based approach
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A machine learning approach to reading level assessment
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Stochastic realisation ranking for a free word order language
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Automatic evaluation of text coherence: models and representations
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Empirical methods in natural language generation
Human evaluation of a german surface realisation ranker
Empirical methods in natural language generation
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Sentence structure is considered to be an important component of the overall linguistic quality of text. Yet few empirical studies have sought to characterize how and to what extent structural features determine fluency and linguistic quality. We report the results of experiments on the predictive power of syntactic phrasing statistics and other structural features for these aspects of text. Manual assessments of sentence fluency for machine translation evaluation and text quality for summarization evaluation are used as gold-standard. We find that many structural features related to phrase length are weakly but significantly correlated with fluency and classifiers based on the entire suite of structural features can achieve high accuracy in pairwise comparison of sentence fluency and in distinguishing machine translations from human translations. We also test the hypothesis that the learned models capture general fluency properties applicable to human-authored text. The results from our experiments do not support the hypothesis. At the same time structural features and models based on them prove to be robust for automatic evaluation of the linguistic quality of multidocument summaries.