Text coherence evaluation becomes a vital and lovely task in Natural Language Processing subfields, such as text summarization, question answering, text generation and machine translation. Existing methods like entity-based and graph-based models are engaging with nouns and noun phrases change role in sequential sentences within short part of a text. They even have limitations in global coheren...

This article proposes a novel framework for representing and measuring local coherence. Central to this approach is the entity-grid representation of discourse, which captures patterns of entity distribution in a text. The algorithm introduced in the article automatically abstracts a text into a set of entity transition sequences and records distributional, syntactic, and referential informatio...

Although entity coherence, i.e. the coherence that arises from certain patterns of references to entities, is of attested importance for characterising a descriptive text structure, whether and how current formal models of entity coherence such as Centering Theory can be used for the purposes of natural language generation remains unclear. This thesis investigates this issue and sets out to exp...

This paper talks about participation of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in TAC 2008 Opinion Summarization pilot. We mainly explored two ideas: (1) use of entity recognition and parsing to enhance a standard retrieval method for opinion retrieval, and (2) use of a coherence language model to optimize the ordering of sentences in a summary. Our result showed that use of enti...

We extend the original entity-based coherence model (Barzilay and Lapata, 2008) by learning from more fine-grained coherence preferences in training data. We associate multiple ranks with the set of permutations originating from the same source document, as opposed to the original pairwise rankings. We also study the effect of the permutations used in training, and the effect of the coreference...

Chinese discourse coherence modeling remains a challenge taskin Natural Language Processing field.Existing approaches mostlyfocus on the need for feature engineering, whichadoptthe sophisticated features to capture the logic or syntactic or semantic relationships acrosssentences within a text.In this paper, we present an entity-drivenrecursive deep modelfor the Chinese discourse coherence evalu...

We propose a local coherence model based on a convolutional neural network that operates over the entity grid representation of a text. The model captures long range entity transitions along with entity-specific features without loosing generalization, thanks to the power of distributed representation. We present a pairwise ranking method to train the model in an end-to-end fashion on a task an...

List-only entity linking is the task of mapping ambiguous mentions in texts to target 8 entities in a group of entity lists. Different from traditional entity linking task, which leverages rich 9 semantic relatedness in knowledge bases to improve linking accuracy, list-only entity linking can 10 merely take advantage of co-occurrences information in entity lists. State-of-the-art work utilizes ...

This paper describes a system which uses entity and topic coherence for improved Text Segmentation (TS) accuracy. First, Linear Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm was used to obtain topics for sentences in the document. We then performed entity mapping across a window in order to discover the transition of entities within sentences. We used the information obtained to support our LDA-based bo...