@inproceedings{flor-somasundaran-2019-lexical,
    title = "Lexical concreteness in narrative",
    author = "Flor, Michael  and
      Somasundaran, Swapna",
    editor = "Ferraro, Francis  and
      Huang, Ting-Hao {`}Kenneth{'}  and
      Lukin, Stephanie M.  and
      Mitchell, Margaret",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling",
    month = aug,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W19-3408/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-3408",
    pages = "75--80",
    abstract = "This study explores the relation between lexical concreteness and narrative text quality. We present a methodology to quantitatively measure lexical concreteness of a text. We apply it to a corpus of student stories, scored according to writing evaluation rubrics. Lexical concreteness is weakly-to-moderately related to story quality, depending on story-type. The relation is mostly borne by adjectives and nouns, but also found for adverbs and verbs."
}