... that students try
to use synonyms in their writing, instead of the
same word, repeatedly. Feedback about word
overuse is helpful in terms of getting students to
refine the use of vocabulary in ... Toward Evaluation of Writing Style:
Finding Overly Repetitive Word Use in Student Essays
Jill Burstein
Magdalena Wolska
Educational Testing Service
Univ...
... Connexor, the Link Grammar parser returns in-
formation about word relationships, forming links,
with the proviso that links cannot cross and that in
a grammatical sentence all links are indirectly ... were
interested in the level of agreement of intuitive un-
derstanding of fluency. We instructed them also that
they should evaluate the sentence without consider-
ing its content,...
... Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Com-
mon Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics
Chin-Yew Lin and Franz Josef Och
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern ... consider word posi-
tion, i.e. using bag -of- words instead. Instead of
error measures, we can also use accuracy measures
that compute similarity between candidate and ref-...
... 6
alternative strings. In 70% of all items, the human
judges chose the same string as the original au-
thor. However, the remaining 30% of the time, the
human judges picked an alternative as being the
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of choices being the same string as the original au-
thor’s.
Figure 6 shows for each bin of possible alterna-
tives, the percentage of item...
... affective
variations of existing texts alter their persuasive im-
pact. In particular we were interested in gaining
initial insights about an intelligent system for affec-
tive variations of existing commentaries ... AdWords can be ex-
ploited, we focused on how to evaluate lexical varia-
tions of a message. In particular we were interested
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in gaining insights about a system...
... concentrations
in the cytoplasm. This fact cannot be explained by
trafficking of premature FpoF intended for binding to
the FpoA–O complex but points to a second function
of the soluble form of FpoF that ... (Fig. 2). Inter-
estingly, this activity was essentially absent in the cyto-
plasmic fraction of the DfpoF mutant.
This observation prompted investigation into the
function of...
... aspect of linguistic quality separately.
3 Indicators of linguistic quality
Multiple factors in uence the linguistic quality of
text in general, including: word choice, the ref-
erence form of entities, ... performance.
Results obtained after excluding each of the
components of continuity is shown in Table 4;
each line in the table represents Continuity mi-
nus a feature...
... state -of- the-art Chinese word
segmenters achieve high accuracy, some errors still
remain.
Instead of segmenting a Chinese sentence into
words, an alternative is to split a Chinese sentence
into ... automatic evaluation of Chinese translation
output. Our analysis suggests several key reasons
behind this finding.
2 Chinese Translation Evaluation
Automatic MT evaluation a...
... bityrosine signal was observed in all
peptides containing tyrosine 23 or 53 but not in peptides
containing tyrosine 20 alone. According to these results,
tyrosines 23 and 53 could be involved in ... 70%) in
trifluoroacetic acid over 30 min (at a flow rate of 1.5
mLÆmin
)1
) was used. Detection was at 214 nm.
Evaluation of the fraction of dimerized proteins was
achieved by calcul...
... 1998). In this approach the subtrees of the
trees in a tree bank are used as elementary trees of
the grammar. In most DOP models the grammar
used is an S TSG with, in principle, all subtrees
1
of
the ... Tree Adjoining Grammars without the
adjunction operation.
STSGs are the underlying formalism of most in-
stantiations of an approach to statistical parsing
known as “Data-...