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.- Anthology ID:
- W19-3408
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Francis Ferraro, Ting-Hao ‘Kenneth’ Huang, Stephanie M. Lukin, Margaret Mitchell
- Venue:
- Story-NLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 75–80
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-3408
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-3408
- Cite (ACL):
- Michael Flor and Swapna Somasundaran. 2019. Lexical concreteness in narrative. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling, pages 75–80, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Lexical concreteness in narrative (Flor & Somasundaran, Story-NLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/W19-3408.pdf