Discourse Element Identification in Student Essays based on Global and Local Cohesion

Discourse Self-Attention for Discourse Element Identification in Argumentative Student Essays

This paper proposes to adapt self-attention to discourse level for modeling discourse elements in argumentative student essays. Specifically, we focus on two issues. First, we propose structural sentence positional encod…

Discourse Mode Identification in Essays

Discourse 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 s…

Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays

Corruption Is Not All Bad: Incorporating Discourse Structure into Pre-training via Corruption for Essay Scoring

Existing approaches for automated essay scoring and document representation learning typically rely on discourse parsers to incorporate discourse structure into text representation. However, the performance of parsers is…

Learning to Identify Sentence Parallelism in Student Essays

Parallelism is an important rhetorical device. We propose a machine learning approach for automated sentence parallelism identification in student essays. We build an essay dataset with sentence level parallelism annotat…