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Discourse element identification in student essays based on global and local cohesion

  • Wei Song
  • , Ruiji Fu
  • , Lizhen Liu
  • , Ting Liu
  • Capital Normal University
  • IFLYTEK Co., Ltd.

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Abstract

We present a method of using cohesion to improve discourse element identification for sentences in student essays. New features for each sentence are derived by considering its relations to global and local cohesion, which are created by means of cohesive resources and subtopic coverage. In our experiments, we obtain significant improvements on identifying all discourse elements, especially of +5% F1 score on thesis and main idea. The analysis shows that global cohesion can better capture thesis statements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015
Subtitle of host publicationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages2255-2261
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643327
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
EventConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 17 Sep 201521 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Conference

ConferenceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period17/09/1521/09/15

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