Guinaudeau and Strube (2013) introduce a graph based model to compute local entity coherence. We propose a computationally efficient normalization method for these graphs and then evaluate it on three tasks: sentence ordering, summary coherence rating and readability assessment. In all tasks normalization improves the results.

Sub-Tenon's injection of triamcinolone was performed in the right eye of a patient with bilateral Purtscher's-like retinopathy after childbirth. The response of macular edema to local triamcinolone was investigated with optical coherence tomography. Five weeks following the injection, optical coherence tomography improvement was seen following unilateral sub-Tenon's triamcinolone injection.

This paper describes how discursive knowledge, given by the discursive theories RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory) and CST (Crossdocument Structure Theory), may improve the automatic evaluation of local coherence in multi-document summaries. Two of the main coherence models from literature were incremented with discursive information and obtained 91.3% of accuracy, with a gain of 53% in relation...

Maintaining coherence between the independent views of multiple participants at distributed locations is essential in an Embedded Simulation environment. Currently, the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol maintains coherence by broadcasting the entity state streams from each simulation station. In this dissertation, a novel alternative to DIS that replaces the transmitting sources...

Frith's original notion of 'weak central coherence' suggested that increased local processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) resulted from reduced global processing. More recent accounts have emphasised superior local perception and suggested intact global integration. However, tasks often place local and global processing in direct trade-off, making it difficult to determine whether group d...

We set out to determine whether extra-striate ventral stream function was compromised in amblyopia and to compare any observed deficit with previous data on comparable dorsal stream function. We devised a multi-element orientation task where orientation coherence sensitivity could be measured in a comparable way to motion coherence. The use of spatial frequency narrowband elements allowed for a...