This paper compares human and LSA-based coherence ratings of 223 essays written by learners of English as a foreign language at various levels of linguistic proficiency. While the LSA-based ratings correlate positively – as expected – with a measure of lexical variety, a negative correlation was found between these ratings and the human grading. This is interpreted as resulting from specific wr...

This paper presents the integration of cohesive properties of text with coherence relations, to obtain an adequate representation of text for automatic summarization. A summarizer based on Lexical Chains is enchanced with rhetorical and argumentative structure obtained via Discourse Markers. When evaluated with newspaper corpus, this integration yields only slight improvement in the resulting s...

The paper presents the LinkedTV approaches for the Search and Hyperlinking (S&H) task at MediaEval 2014. Our submissions aim at evaluating 2 key dimensions: temporal granularity and visual properties of the video segments. The temporal granularity of target video segments is defined by grouping text sentences, or consecutive automatically detected shots, considering the temporal coherence, the ...

We describe the role of context models in natural language processing systems and their implementation and evaluation in the SmartKom system. We show that contextual knowledge is needed for an ensemble of tasks, such as lexical and pragmatic disambiguation, decontextualizion of domain and common-sense knowledge that was left implicit by the user and for estimating an overall coherence score tha...

This paper presents a specialized editor for a highly structured dictionary. The basic goal in building that editor was to provide an adequate tool to help lexicologists produce a valid and coherent dictionary on the basis of a linguistic theory. If we want valuable lexicons and grammars to achieve complex natural language processing, we must provide very powerful tools to help create and ensur...

This paper presents the integration of cohesive properties of text with coherence relations, to obtain an adequate representation of text for automatic summarization. A summarizer based on Lexical Chains is enchanced with rhetorical and argumentative structure obtained via Discourse Markers. When evaluated with newspaper corpus, this integration yields only slight improvement in the resulting s...

To date, researchers have proposed different ways to compute the readability and coherence of a text using a variety of lexical, syntax, entity and discourse properties. But these metrics have not been defined with special relevance to any particular genre but rather proposed as general indicators of writing quality. In this thesis, we propose and evaluate novel text quality metrics that utiliz...

The paper describes the application of kMeans, a standard clustering technique, to the task of inducing semantic classes for German verbs. Using probability distributions over verb subcategorisation frames, we obtained an intuitively plausible clustering of 57 verbs into 14 classes. The automatic clustering was evaluated against independently motivated, handconstructed semantic verb classes. A ...

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Background A growing body of literature has demonstrated the importance discourse assessment in patients who suffered from brain injury, both left and right hemispheres, as represents a key component functional communication. However, little is known about relationship between gray matter density macrolinguistic processing. Purpose This study aimed to investigate this group participants with mi...