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What Makes Writing Great? First Experiments on Article Quality Prediction in the Science Journalism Domain
Published on 2013-10-023858 Views
Great writing is rare and highly admired. Readers seek out articles that are beautifully written, informative and entertaining. Yet information-access technologies lack capabilities for predicting art
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What makes Writing Great? First experiments on Article Quality in the Science Journalism Domain00:00
A new task00:25
This work01:21
Science journalism genre01:58
Corpus of article quality03:00
Category 1 : VERY GOOD articles03:07
Expanding the VERY GOOD set04:36
Category 2: TYPICAL writing in the NYT05:26
A topic-paired corpus06:08
Two quality prediction tasks07:04
Properties of the dataset07:27
How to predict interesting writing?08:10
Approach to feature development08:17
1. Unusual words and phrases09:32
2. Visual nature10:16
Visual nature10:55
Human interest and text structure11:41
Sentiment and Research12:15
Strengths in predicting article quality12:56
How the features vary13:05
Accuracies on the two tasks13:48
Combining reader interest with other aspects14:22
Comparing with a bag of words system15:38
A word based classifier16:24
Accuracy of the Bag of Words system16:33
Conclusions17:29
Thank you17:57