Abstract
This article proposes a novel framework for representing and measuring local coherence. Central
to this approach is the entity-grid representation of discourse, which captures patterns of entity
distribution in a text. The algorithm introduced in the article automatically abstracts a text
into a set of entity transition sequences and records distributional, syntactic, and referential
information about discourse entities. We re-conceptualize coherence assessment as a learning
task and show that our entity-based representation is well-suited for ranking-based generation
and text classification tasks. Using the proposed representation, we achieve good performance on
text ordering, summary coherence evaluation, and readability assessment.
Code
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Source code