Computational indices related to n-gram production were developed in order to assess the potential for n-gram indices to predict human scores of essay quality. A regression analyses was conducted on a corpus of 313 argumentative essays. The analyses demonstrated that a variety of n-gram indices were highly correlated to essay quality, but were also highly correlated to the number of words in th...

Citations in scientific writing fulfil an important role in creating relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. These inter-article relationships reinforce the argumentation structure intrinsic to all scientific writing. Therefore, determining the nature of the exact relationship between a citing and cited paper requires an understanding of the rhetorical relations ...

Citations in scientific writing fulfil an important role in creating relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. These inter-article relationships reinforce the argumentation structure intrinsic to all scientific writing. Therefore, determining the nature of the exact relationship between a citing and cited paper requires an understanding of the rhetorical relations ...

This project explores capacity building in information and communication technology (ICT) among paraprofessional social workers in the Department of Social and Community Development in St. Kitts during a transition period as the department migrates from paper to electronic records. Based on work from prior research projects, we specifically undertook the exploration of the relationship between ...

In this paper we investigate whether unsupervised models can be used to induce conventional aspects of rhetorical language in scientific writing. We rely on the intuition that the rhetorical language used in a document is general in nature and independent of the document’s topic. We describe a Bayesian latent-variable model that implements this intuition. In two empirical evaluations based on t...

this study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. the qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate efl learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

The construction of meaning in texts inevitably involves the expression of value judgments (Mirskin, 1995) as well as other types of writer evaluation. This paper explores the expression of value in argumentative English language essays written by first year undergraduates. Hunston’s (1989) evaluation of value which essentially involves qualitative judgements along the good–bad cline is used to...

The present study takes an integrated approach of grammatical elements and structures from the perspective their functioning in texts/discourses. It focusses semantic-pragmatic argumentative-discursive values utterances represented by conceptual scheme Yes... But..., academic writing, particular master’s theses reports. Its object are discursive sequences with a composite argumentative movement...