Analysing Rhetorical Structure as a Key Feature of Summary Coherence
2019-08-01WS 2019Unverified0· sign in to hype
Jan {\v{S}}najder, Tamara Sladoljev-Agejev, Svjetlana Koli{\'c} Vehovec
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We present a model for automatic scoring of coherence based on comparing the rhetorical structure (RS) of college student summaries in L2 (English) against expert summaries. Coherence is conceptualised as a construct consisting of the rhetorical relation and its arguments. Comparison with expert-assigned scores shows that RS scores correlate with both cohesion and coherence. Furthermore, RS scores improve the accuracy of a regression model for cohesion score prediction.