b'Diane Litman'

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∙ 06/01/2023

Towards Argument-Aware Abstractive Summarization of Long Legal Opinions with Summary Reranking

We propose a simple approach for the abstractive summarization of long l...

0 Mohamed Elaraby, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/01/2023

Predicting the Quality of Revisions in Argumentative Writing

The ability to revise in response to feedback is critical to students' w...

0 Zhexiong Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/10/2023

Predicting Desirable Revisions of Evidence and Reasoning in Argumentative Writing

We develop models to classify desirable evidence and desirable reasoning...

0 Tazin Afrin, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/06/2022

Computing and Exploiting Document Structure to Improve Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Decisions

Though many algorithms can be used to automatically summarize legal case...

0 Yang Zhong, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/23/2022

Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot Interactions

Speakers build rapport in the process of aligning conversational behavio...

0 Yuya Asano, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/14/2022

ImageArg: A Multi-modal Tweet Dataset for Image Persuasiveness Mining

The growing interest in developing corpora of persuasive texts has promo...

10 Zhexiong Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/04/2022

ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the a...

5 Mohamed Elaraby, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/03/2022

ArgRewrite V.2: an Annotated Argumentative Revisions Corpus

Analyzing how humans revise their writings is an interesting research qu...

9 Omid Kashefi, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/17/2021

Mitigating Data Scarceness through Data Synthesis, Augmentation and Curriculum for Abstractive Summarization

This paper explores three simple data manipulation techniques (synthesis...

11 Ahmed Magooda, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/17/2021

Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource AbstractiveSummarization

This paper explores the effect of using multitask learning for abstracti...

6 Ahmed Magooda, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/04/2021

A Neural Network-Based Linguistic Similarity Measure for Entrainment in Conversations

Linguistic entrainment is a phenomenon where people tend to mimic each o...

19 Mingzhi Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/14/2021

Effective Interfaces for Student-Driven Revision Sessions for Argumentative Writing

We present the design and evaluation of a web-based intelligent writing ...

0 Tazin Afrin, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/14/2021

Annotation and Classification of Evidence and Reasoning Revisions in Argumentative Writing

Automated writing evaluation systems can improve students' writing insof...

10 Tazin Afrin, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/27/2021

Leveraging Linguistic Coordination in Reranking N-Best Candidates For End-to-End Response Selection Using BERT

Retrieval-based dialogue systems select the best response from many cand...

0 Mingzhi Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/20/2021

Discussion Tracker: Supporting Teacher Learning about Students' Collaborative Argumentation in High School Classrooms

Teaching collaborative argumentation is an advanced skill that many K-12...

2 Luca Lugini, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/20/2021

Contextual Argument Component Classification for Class Discussions

Argument mining systems often consider contextual information, i.e. info...

8 Luca Lugini, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/04/2020

Automated Topical Component Extraction Using Neural Network Attention Scores from Source-based Essay Scoring

While automated essay scoring (AES) can reliably grade essays at scale, ...

0 Haoran Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/22/2020

The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation

Although Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on argument mining h...

0 Christopher Olshefski, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/09/2020

Abstractive Summarization for Low Resource Data using Domain Transfer and Data Synthesis

Training abstractive summarization models typically requires large amoun...

0 Ahmed Magooda, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/06/2019

Annotating Student Talk in Text-based Classroom Discussions

Classroom discussions in English Language Arts have a positive effect on...

0 Luca Lugini, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/06/2019

Argument Component Classification for Classroom Discussions

This paper focuses on argument component classification for transcribed ...

0 Luca Lugini, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/03/2019

Predicting Specificity in Classroom Discussion

High quality classroom discussion is important to student development, e...

0 Luca Lugini, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/03/2019

Annotation and Classification of Sentence-level Revision Improvement

Studies of writing revisions rarely focus on revision quality. To addres...

0 Tazin Afrin, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/03/2019

Identifying Editor Roles in Argumentative Writing from Student Revision Histories

We present a method for identifying editor roles from students' revision...

0 Tazin Afrin, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/02/2019

Identifying Personality Traits Using Overlap Dynamics in Multiparty Dialogue

Research on human spoken language has shown that speech plays an importa...

0 Mingzhi Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/02/2019

Investigating the Relationship between Multi-Party Linguistic Entrainment, Team Characteristics, and the Perception of Team Social Outcomes

Multi-party linguistic entrainment refers to the phenomenon that speaker...

0 Mingzhi Yu, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/06/2019

Co-Attention Based Neural Network for Source-Dependent Essay Scoring

This paper presents an investigation of using a co-attention based neura...

1 Haoran Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/06/2019

eRevise: Using Natural Language Processing to Provide Formative Feedback on Text Evidence Usage in Student Writing

Writing a good essay typically involves students revising an initial pap...

4 Haoran Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/06/2019

Word Embedding for Response-To-Text Assessment of Evidence

Manually grading the Response to Text Assessment (RTA) is labor intensiv...

1 Haoran Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/25/2018

A Novel ILP Framework for Summarizing Content with High Lexical Variety

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, becau...

0 Wencan Luo, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/25/2018

An Improved Phrase-based Approach to Annotating and Summarizing Student Course Responses

Teaching large classes remains a great challenge, primarily because it i...

0 Wencan Luo, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/25/2018

Automatic Summarization of Student Course Feedback

Student course feedback is generated daily in both classrooms and online...

0 Wencan Luo, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/28/2017

A Joint Identification Approach for Argumentative Writing Revisions

Prior work on revision identification typically uses a pipeline method: ...

0 Fan Zhang, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/03/2016

Using Discourse Signals for Robust Instructor Intervention Prediction

We tackle the prediction of instructor intervention in student posts fro...

0 Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, et al. ∙

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