The role of centering theory's rough-shift in the teaching and evaluation of writing skills

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2000-October, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Miltsakaki, Eleni ^a   Kukich, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Educatinal Testing Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING; CENTERING THEORIES; FREE TEXTS; SCORING SYSTEMS; SHIFT TRANSITIONS; SOFTWARE-SYSTEMS; WRITING SKILLS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 3042511350     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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