2017 ACL ACL 2017

Discourse Mode Identification in Essays

Abstract

AbstractDiscourse modes play an important role in writing composition and evaluation. This paper presents a study on the manual and automatic identification of narration,exposition, description, argument and emotion expressing sentences in narrative essays. We annotate a corpus to study the characteristics of discourse modes and describe a neural sequence labeling model for identification. Evaluation results show that discourse modes can be identified automatically with an average F1-score of 0.7. We further demonstrate that discourse modes can be used as features that improve automatic essay scoring (AES). The impacts of discourse modes for AES are also discussed.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
📈 Trend Setter — Semantic Analysis
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — discourse mode identification
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — text classification
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning
🌱 Topic Pioneer — Sequence Labeling