Annotation of children's oral narrations: Modeling emergent narrative skills for computational applications

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-258

  Passonneau, Rebecca J ^a   Goodkind, Adam ^a   Levy, Elena T ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION METHOD; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS; ORAL NARRATIONS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 37349059626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. Bartlett, F. C. 1932. Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Oxford: Macmillan.
2. Beck, I.; McKeown, M.; Sinatra, G.; and Loxterman, J. 1991. Revising social studies text from a text-processing perspective: evidence of improved comprehensibility. Reading Research Quarterly 251-276.
3. Celinska, D. K. 2004. Personal narratives of students with and without learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice 83-98.
4. Chafe, W., ed. 1980. The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production. Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX Publishing Corporation.
5. Donaldson, M. 1986. Children's Explanations: A psycholinguistic study. New York: Cambridge University Press.
6. Halpin, H.; Moore, J. D.; and Robertson, J. 2004. Automatic analysis of plot for story rewriting. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
7. Krippendorff, K. 1980. Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
8. Labov, W., and Waletzky, J. 1967. Narrative analysis. In Helm, J., ed., Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts. University of Washington Press. 12-44.
9. L'Allier, J. J. 1980. An evaluation study of a computerbased lesson that adjusts reading level by monitoring on task reader characteristics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota.
10. Levy, E. T., and Fowler, C. A. 2005. How autistic children may use narrative discourse to scaffold coherent interpretations of events: A case study. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 207-244.
11. Levy, E. 2003. The roots of coherence in discourse. Human Development 169-188.
12. McCabe, A.; Capron, E.; and Peterson, P. 1991. The voice of experience: The recall of early childhood and adolescent memories by young adults. In McCabe, A., and Peterson, C., eds., Developing Narrative Structure. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 137-174.
13. Nenkova, A., and Passonneau, R. J. 2004. Evaluating content selection in summarization: the pyramid method. In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL.
14. Nenkova, A.; Passonneau, R. J.; and McKeown, K. To Appear. The pyramid method: incorporating human content selection variation in summarization evaluation. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing.
15. Nenkova, A. 2006. Understanding the process of multidocument summarization: content selection, rewrite and evaluation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University.
16. Norris, A., and Bruning, R. H. 1988. Cohesion in the narratives of good and poor readers. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 416-424.
17. Omanson, R. C. 1982. An analysis of narratives: Identifying central, supportive and distracting content. Discourse Processes 119-224.
18. Passonneau, R.; Nenkova, A.; McKeown, K.; and Sigelman, S. 2005. Applying the pyramid method in 2005. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC).
19. Passonneau, R. J. 2006. Measuring agreement for setvalued items (MASI) for semantic and pragmatic annotation. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
20. Passonneau, R. J. In submission. Formal and functional assessment of the pyramid method.
21. Tannen, D. 1980. A comparative analysis of oral narrative strategies. In Chafe, W., ed., The Pear Stories. Norwood, New Jersey: ABLEX Publishing Corporation. 9-50.
22. Teufel, S., and van Halteren, H. 2004. Evaluating information content by factoid analysis: human annotation and stability. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).