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"text": "Coherence refers to the properties of a text that indicate how meaningful (sub-)sentential constituents are connected to convey document-level meaning. Different theories have been proposed to describe the properties that contribute to discourse coherence and some have been integrated with computational models for empirical evaluation. A popular approach is the entity-based model which hypothesizes that coherence can be assessed in terms of the distribution of and transitions between entities in a text -by constructing an entity-grid (Egrid) representation Lapata, 2005, 2008) , building on Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995) . Subsequent work has adapted and further extended Egrid representations (Filippova and Strube, 2007; Burstein et al., 2010; Elsner and Charniak, 2011; Guinaudeau and Strube, 2013) . Other research has focused on syntactic patterns that co-occur in text (Louis and Nenkova, 2012) or semantic relatedness between sentences Soricut and Marcu, 2006; Somasundaran et al., 2014) as key aspects of coherence modeling. There have also been attempts to model coherence by identifying rhetorical relations that connect textual units (Mann and Thompson, 1988; Lin et al., 2011; Feng et al., 2014) or capturing topic shifts via Hidden Markov Models (HMM, Barzilay and Lee, 2004) . Other work has combined approaches to study whether they are complementary (Elsner et al., 2007; Feng et al., 2014) . More recently, neural networks have been used to model coherence. Some models utilize structured representations of text (e.g. Egrid representations, Tien Nguyen and Joty, 2017; Joty et al., 2018) and others operate on unstructured text, taking advantage of neural models' ability to learn useful representations for the task (Li and Jurafsky, 2017; Logeswaran et al., 2018; Farag and Yannakoudakis, 2019; Moon et al., 2019) .",
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"text": "We experiment with a number of existing and stateof-the-art neural approaches to coherence assessment, that have publicly available implementations, and present details of the models below. Across all the BERT-based models, we use bert-large-uncased and layer 16 following Liu et al. 2019and Hewitt and Manning (2019) . Multi-task learning (MTL, Farag and Yannakoudakis, 2019): The model applies a Bi-LSTM on input GloVe word embeddings (Pennington et al., 2014) followed by attention to build sentence representations; then builds a second Bi-LSTM with attention to compose a document vector. A linear operation followed by a sigmoid function is applied to the document representation to predict an overall coherence score as the main objective. Inspired by the Egrid approaches, the model is also optimized to predict the grammatical roles of the input words at the bottom layer of the network as an auxiliary task. MTL with BERT embeddings (MTL bert ): We replicate the previous MTL model but now use BERT embeddings (Devlin et al., 2019) to initialize the input words. Single-task learning (STL, Farag and Yannakoudakis, 2019) : This model has the same architecture as MTL but only performs the coherence prediction task, excluding the grammatical role auxiliary objective. STL with BERT (STL bert ): This is the same as STL but uses BERT embeddings. Local Coherence Discriminator with Language modeling (LCD rnnlm , : The model generates sentence representations via an RNN language model, where word embeddings are initialized using GloVe. It then generates a representation for two consecutive sentences via concatenating the output of a set of linear transformations applied to the two sentences: concatenation, element-wise dif-ference, element-wise product and absolute value of element-wise difference. This representation is fed to an MLP layer to predict a local coherence score. 2 The overall coherence of a document is the average of its local scores. LCD with BERT (LCD bert ): We create a variant of the LCD rnnlm model where instead of using an RNN language model encoder, we encode each sentence as the average BERT vectors of the words it contains. Everything else remains the same. Local Coherence (LC, Li and Jurafsky, 2017) : The model generates sentence vectors via an LSTM over GloVe-initialized word embeddings; then a window approach is applied over adjacent sentences to get embeddings of groups of sentences and predict local coherence scores. The final document score is calculated by averaging its local scores. Egrid CNN (Egrid cnn , Tien Nguyen and Joty, 2017): The model applies a CNN over Egrid representations across groups of consecutive sentences; the CNN slides multiple filters of weights to extract feature maps that represent high-level entitytransition features, followed by a max pooling function to focus on the important features. Furthermore, additional entity-related features are integrated such as salience, proper mentions and named entity type.",
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"text": "Binary discrimination is a typical approach to assessing neural coherence models where a wellorganized document should be ranked higher than its permuted counterparts created by corrupting sentence order. Following previous work, we train and test 3 the coherence models on the WSJ 4 and evaluate them using Pairwise Ranking Accuracy (PRA), which is calculated based on the fraction of correct pairwise rankings between a coherent document and its incoherent counterparts.",
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"text": "In Table 1 , we present the performance of all coherence models. The high accuracy of the models demonstrates their efficacy for the task of selecting a maximally coherent sentence order from a set of candidate permutations. We note that the LCD and MTL BERT variants achieve a new state-of-the-art on the WSJ. The remarkable accuracy on this task may render this problem fully solved. Herein, we seek to investigate how well these models of coherence can capture aspects of text implicated in discourse organisation. We devise a set of datasets and systematically test model susceptibility to syntactic or semantic changes.",
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"text": "We compile a large-scale dataset, to which we refer as Cloze Coherence (CC), of coherent and incoherent examples, where the former are intact well-written texts while the latter are the result of applying syntactic or semantic perturbations to the coherent ones.",
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"text": "For the sake of specifically testing for coherence, we avoid complex linguistic structures. Specifically, we focus on coherent examples that consist of two short sentences that are coreferential and exhibit a rhetorical relation (such properties can be manipulated to create incoherent counterparts). Furthermore, we focus on examples that are self-contained, meaning that they do not reference or rely on an outer context to be interpreted. We find that narrative texts are good candidates to satisfy these criteria and therefore create our coherent examples from the ROCStories Cloze dataset 5 (Mostafazadeh et al., 2016) .",
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