Learning to Identify Sentence Parallelism in Student Essays
Wei Song, L. Tong, Ruiji Fu, Lizhen Liu, Hanshi Wang, Ting Liu · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2016
Parallelism is an important rhetorical device. We propose a machine learning approach for automated sentence parallelism identification in student essays. We build an essay dataset with sentence level parallelism annotated. We derive features by combining generalized word alignment strategies and the alignment measures between word sequences. The experimental results show that sentence parallelism can be effectively identified with a F1 score of 82% at pair-wise level and 72% at parallelism chunk level.Based on this approach, we automatically identify sentence parallelism in more than 2000 student essays and study the correlation between the use of sentence parallelism and the types and quality of essays.