IRCS Technical Reports Series
Title
Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure
Document Type
Technical Report
Date of this Version
August 1998
Abstract
Text coherence and readability in English can be significantly affected by the organization of information in an utterance. To assist writers in this respect, we implement a Computer-Assisted Writing system focusing on ‘information structure’. The main challenge in this task is identification of information structure in texts. This paper shows that this can be done by checking discourse status and linguistic marking in utterances.
Keywords
Information structure, text, discourse
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Date Posted: 20 August 2006
Comments
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-98-19.