Discourse

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Newsletter #12

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• Off-topic Response Detection for Spontaneous Spoken English Assessment

Andrey Malinin, Rogier van Dalen, Kate Knill, Yu Wang, and Mark Gales

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Newsletter #11

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• A Discursive Grid Approach to Model Local Coherence in Multi-document Summaries

Márcio Dias and Thiago Pardo

• Exploring the Effects of Redundancy within a Tutorial Dialogue System: Restating Students’ Responses

Pamela Jordan, Patricia Albacete, and Sandra Katz

• Multilingual Summarization with Polytope Model

Natalia Vanetik and Marina Litvak

• Learning Sentential Patterns of Various Rhetoric Moves for Assisted Academic Writing

Jim Chang, Hsiang-Ling Hsu, Joanne Boisson, Hao-Chun Peng, Yu-Hsuan Wu, and Jason S. Chang

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Newsletter #9

• Discourse Element Identification in Student Essays based on Global and Local Sentence Chains

Wei Song

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Newsletter #8

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• A Neural Network Approach to Context-Sensitive Generation of Conversational Responses

Alessandro Sordoni, Michel Galley, Michael Auli, Chris Brockett, Yangfeng Ji, Margaret Mitchell, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, and Bill Dolan

• A Strategic Reasoning Model for Generating Alternative Answers

Jon Stevens, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reusse, and Ralf Klabunde

• A Unified Kernel Approach for Learning Typed Sentence Rewritings

Martin Gleize and Brigitte Grau

• Different topics, different discourse: Relationships among writing topic, measures of syntactic complexity, and judgments of writing quality

Weiwei Yang, Xiaofei Lu, and Sara Cushing Weigle

• Efficient Disfluency Detection with Transition-Based Parsing

Shuangzhi Wu, Dongdong Zhang, Ming Zhou, and Tiejun Zhao

• Learning Answer-Entailing Structures for Machine Comprehension

Mrinmaya Sachan, Kumar Dubey, Matthew Richardson, and Eric Xing

• Question Analysis for a Closed Domain Question Answering System

Caner Derici, Kerem Çelik, Ekrem Kutbay, Yigit Aydın, Tunga Güngör, Arzucan Özgür, and Gunizi Kartal

• Semantic Grounding in Dialogue for Complex Problem Solving

Xiaolong Li and Kristy Boyer

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Newsletter #6

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• A Graph-based Approach for Contextual Text Normalization

Cagil Sonmez and Arzucan Ozgur

• Finding your “inner-annotator”: An experiment in annotator independence for rating discourse coherence quality in essays

Jill Burstein, Swapna Somasundaran, and Martin Chodorow

• Identifying Argumentative Discourse Structures in Persuasive Essays

Christian Stab and Iryna Gurevych

• Lexical Chaining for Measuring Discourse Coherence Quality in Test-taker Essays

Swapna Somasundaran, Jill Burstein, and Martin Chodorow

• Resolving Shell Nouns

Varada Kolhatkar and Graeme Hirst