Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Centering: a framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
Computational Linguistics
S an Interactive Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics
S an Interactive Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics
Toward an aposynthesis of topic continuity and intrasentential anaphora
Computational Linguistics
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Lexical cohesion computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of text
Computational Linguistics
Japanese discourse and the process of centering
Computational Linguistics
Discourse segmentation by human and automated means
Computational Linguistics
A corpus-based investigation of definite description use
Computational Linguistics
A methodology for extending focusing frameworks
Computational Linguistics
Functional centering: grounding referential coherence in information structure
Computational Linguistics
Automated scoring using a hybrid feature identification technique
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A centering approach to pronouns
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Text segmentation based on similarity between words
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Multi-paragraph segmentation of expository text
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An automatic method of finding topic boundaries
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards intelligent QA interfaces: discourse processing for context questions
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Implementation and evaluation of a quality-based search engine
Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
The quest to find the best pages on the web
Information Services and Use
Discourse processing for context question answering based on linguistic knowledge
Knowledge-Based Systems
Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora
Computational Linguistics
Coreference-inspired coherence modeling
HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
Matching readers' preferences and reading skills with appropriate web texts
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations Session
Real-time web text classification and analysis of reading difficulty
EANL '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
Automatic evaluation of text coherence: models and representations
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Modeling organization in student essays
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
A new dataset and method for automatically grading ESOL texts
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Disentangling chat with local coherence models
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Incorporating cohesive devices into entity grid model in evaluating local coherence of japanese text
CICLing'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Automated detection of local coherence in short argumentative essays based on centering theory
CICLing'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part I
Detecting breakdowns in local coherence in the writing of Chinese English learners
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP
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Existing software systems for automated essay scoring can provide NLP researchers with opportunities to test certain theoretical hypotheses, including some derived from Centering Theory. In this study we employ the Educational Testing Service's e-rater essay scoring system to examine whether local discourse coherence, as defined by a measure of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift transitions, might be a significant contributor to the evaluation of essays. Rough-Shifts within students' paragraphs often occur when topics are short-lived and unconnected, and are therefore indicative of poor topic development. We show that adding the Rough-Shift based metric to the system improves its performance significantly, better approximating human scores and providing the capability of valuable instructional feedback to the student. These results indicate that Rough-Shifts do indeed capture a source of incoherence, one that has not been closely examined in the Centering literature. They not only justify Rough-Shifts as a valid transition type, but they also support the original formulation of Centering as a measure of discourse continuity even in pronominal-free text. Finally, our study design, which used a combination of automated and manual NLP techniques, highlights specific areas of NLP research and development needed for engineering practical applications.