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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"discourse coherence"”.
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Neural approaches to discourse coherence: modeling, evaluation and application
Discourse coherence is an important aspect of text quality that refers to the way different textual units relate to each other. In this thesis, I investigate neural approaches to modeling discourse coherence. I present a multi-task neural network where the main task is to predict a document-level …
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Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence
… anterior sites in response to semantic and discourse processing. Although useful as a marker for clinical populations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental language disorder (DLD), little is understood about the dynamics and neural sources of this biological marker. In addition …
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The Relationship Between Thematic Progression and English Discourse Coherence: An Investigation Based on some University of Zambia Students' written Discourse
… thematic progression patterns and English discourse coherence in the written pieces of discourse produced by a sample of University of Zambia students registered for the 2009 Academic Year in the School of Education and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The purpose of the …
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The Relationship Between Thematic Progression and English Discourse Coherence: An Investigation Based on some University of Zambia Students' written Discourse
… thematic progression patterns and English discourse coherence in the written pieces of discourse produced by a sample of University of Zambia students registered for the 2009 Academic Year in the School of Education and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The purpose of the …
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Coherence in natural language : data structures and applications
(cont.) baseline, and that some coherence-based approaches best predict the human data. However, coherence-based algorithms that operate on trees did not perform as well as coherence-based algorithms that operate on more general graphs. It is suggested that that might in part be due to the fact …
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Argument Realization in Thai
… subjects made pragmatic inferences based on the discourse context: inferring an omitted object allowed them to preserve discourse coherence. Hence, in addition to syntactic bootstrapping, discourse context may be used as another cue in acquiring verbs.
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Modeling Narrative Discourse
… approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse. Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing techniques typically do not leverage the aspects that separate narrative from expository discourse. We describe two approaches to the problem. The …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
<p>Discourse coherence often relies on anaphoric expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns. Gordon, Grosz, and Gilliom (1993) showed that repeated names are harder to process than pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the …
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The role of structural and discourse-level cues during pronoun resolution
… and information provided by the prior discourse is used during online processing. This is investigated through several eye tracking during reading experiments that are complemented by a number of offline questionnaire experiments. I begin by considering how condition B of the Binding …
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Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters
… anaphoric referent as the indicator of discourse incoherence, and f) density and word frequency of sentence iv connectors as indicators of discourse coherence. The relation between these variables and raters’ decision making were investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively. …
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Case roles / relations and discourse relations: A Maori language-based perspective
… project is to explore case roles/ relations and discourse relations (referred to in this thesis as 'intra-propositional relations' and 'interpropositional relations' respectively) from the perspective of the Maori language. The thesis begins with an outline of the scope of the research and the …