Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers
Advaith Siddharthan, Napoleon Katsos · Open Research Online (The Open University) · 2010
In this paper we report a behavioural ex-periment documenting that different lexico-syntactic formulations of the discourse rela-tion of causation are deemed more or less ac-ceptable by different categories of readers. We further report promising results for automati-cally selecting the formulation that is most ap-propriate for a given category of reader using supervised learning. This investigation is em-bedded within a longer term research agenda aimed at summarising scientific writing for lay readers using appropriate paraphrasing. 1