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Topic models extract representative word sets - called topics - from word counts in documents without requiring any semantic annotations. Topics are not guaranteed to be well interpretable, therefore, coherence measures have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Frank Rosner , Alexander Hinneburg , Michael Röder , Martin Nettling , Andreas Both

Dialogue topic segmentation is critical in several dialogue modeling problems. However, popular unsupervised approaches only exploit surface features in assessing topical coherence among utterances. In this work, we address this limitation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

Measuring the coherence of text is a vital aspect of evaluating the quality of written content. Recent advancements in neural coherence modeling have demonstrated their efficacy in capturing entity coreference and discourse relations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhecheng Sheng , Tianhao Zhang , Chen Jiang , Dongyeop Kang

Coherence is a crucial aspect of evaluating text readability and can be assessed through two primary factors when evaluating an essay in a scoring scenario. The first factor is logical coherence, characterized by the appropriate use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chen Zheng , Huan Zhang , Yan Zhao , Yuxuan Lai

Coherence is a linguistic term that refers to the relations between small textual units (sentences, propositions), which make the text logically consistent and meaningful to the reader. With the advances of generative foundational models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty

While there has been significant progress towards modelling coherence in written discourse, the work in modelling spoken discourse coherence has been quite limited. Unlike the coherence in text, coherence in spoken discourse is also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Rajaswa Patil , Yaman Kumar Singla , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Mika Hama , Roger Zimmermann

Coherence is an essential property of well-written texts, that refers to the way textual units relate to one another. In the era of generative AI, coherence assessment is essential for many NLP tasks; summarization, generation, long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty

While text-conditional 3D object generation and manipulation have seen rapid progress, the evaluation of coherence between generated 3D shapes and input textual descriptions lacks a clear benchmark. The reason is twofold: a) the low quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Andrea Amaduzzi , Giuseppe Lisanti , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural models; (2) there is a training-test gap for unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

In this paper, to evaluate text coherence, we propose the paragraph ordering task as well as conducting sentence ordering. We collected four distinct corpora from different domains on which we investigate the adaptation of existing sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Sennan Liu , Shuang Zeng , Sujian Li

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers. Automatic metrics such as BLEU correlate weakly with human annotations, resulting in a significant bias across different models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

Discourse coherence plays an important role in the translation of one text. However, the previous reported models most focus on improving performance over individual sentence while ignoring cross-sentence links and dependencies, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Document coherence describes how much sense text makes in terms of its logical organisation and discourse flow. Even though coherence is a relatively difficult notion to quantify precisely, it can be approximated automatically. This type of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Christina Lioma , Fabien Tarissan , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Casper Petersen , Birger Larsen

Discourse coherence is strongly associated with text quality, making it important to natural language generation and understanding. Yet existing models of coherence focus on measuring individual aspects of coherence (lexical overlap,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiwei Li , Dan Jurafsky

Conversational systems have become increasingly popular as a way for humans to interact with computers. To be able to provide intelligent responses, conversational systems must correctly model the structure and semantics of a conversation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Svitlana Vakulenko , Maarten de Rijke , Michael Cochez , Vadim Savenkov , Axel Polleres

Automatically evaluating the coherence of summaries is of great significance both to enable cost-efficient summarizer evaluation and as a tool for improving coherence by selecting high-scoring candidate summaries. While many different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Julius Steen , Katja Markert

Video paragraph captioning is the task of automatically generating a coherent paragraph description of the actions in a video. Previous linguistic studies have demonstrated that coherence of a natural language text is reflected by its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun R Akula , Song-Chun Zhu

Discourse cohesion facilitates text comprehension and helps the reader form a coherent narrative. In this study, we aim to computationally analyze the discourse cohesion in scientific scholarly texts using multilayer network representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Vasudha Bhatnagar , Swagata Duari , S. K. Gupta

Topic models are typically evaluated with respect to the global topic distributions that they generate, using metrics such as coherence, but without regard to local (token-level) topic assignments. Token-level assignments are important for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jeffrey Lund , Piper Armstrong , Wilson Fearn , Stephen Cowley , Courtni Byun , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Kevin Seppi

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer
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