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International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

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Using Rhetorical Structure Theory and Entity Grids to Automatically Evaluate Local Coherence in Texts

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This paper presents a joint model designed to measure local text coherence that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and entity grids. The purpose is to learn patterns of entity distribution in texts by considering entity transition sequences and organizational/discourse information using RST relations in order to create a predictive model that is able to distinguish coherent from incoherent texts. In an evaluation with newspaper texts, the proposed model outperformed other methods in the area.

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  1. Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC), Brazil

    Márcio de S. Dias, Valéria D. Feltrim & Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

  2. University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Márcio de S. Dias & Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

  3. State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil

    Valéria D. Feltrim

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  1. FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas,, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  2. INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  3. IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sara Candeias

  4. USP-EACH, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Ivandré Paraboni

  5. USP-ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Thiago A. S. Pardo

  6. SCC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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de S. Dias, M., Feltrim, V.D., Pardo, T.A.S. (2014). Using Rhetorical Structure Theory and Entity Grids to Automatically Evaluate Local Coherence in Texts. In: Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Candeias, S., Paraboni, I., Pardo, T.A.S., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_26

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