Improving Text Fluency by Reordering of Constituents
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We present a method for improving local coherence in German with implications for automatically as well as for humangenerated texts. We demonstrate that local coherence crucially depends on which constituent occupies the initial position in a sentence. We provide statistical evidence based on a corpus investigation and on results of an experiment with human judges to support our hypothesis. Additionally, we implement our findings in a generation module for determining the Vorfeld constituent automatically.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006