Chandrakumari Suvarna


2019

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Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback
Shiyan Jiang | Kexin Yang | Chandrakumari Suvarna | Pooja Casula | Mingtong Zhang | Carolyn Rosé
Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 2019

We present a package of annotation resources, including annotation guideline, flowchart, and an Intelligent Tutoring System for training human annotators. These resources can be used to apply Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to essays written by students in K-12 schools. Furthermore, we highlight the great potential of using RST to provide automated feedback for improving writing quality across genres.