A Corpus-Based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of Coherence for Text Structuring

This paper presents a novel corpus-based methodology for comparing metrics of coherence with respect to their potential usefulness for text structuring. Different definitions of such metrics, all using notions from Centering Theory, are discussed, and the methodology is applied to existing data derived from the MPIRO generation system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: INLG
• Authors: Nikiforos Karamanis, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander, Massimo Poesio
• Keywords: INLG 2004, MPIRO Generation System, Natural Language Processing, Potential Usefulness, Text Structuring