Topic-Focus Articulation: A Third Pillar of Automatic Evaluation of Text Coherence

Abstract

We present a system for automatic evaluation of surface text coherence in Czech essays written by native and non-native speakers. The features of the EVALD system cover spelling, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, discourse relations and coreference.

Newly we add features targeting topic-focus articulation.

Keywords

• topic
• focus
• articulation
• third
• pillar
• automatic
• evaluation
• text
• coherence