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  <Title>Evaluating Centering-based metrics of coherence for text structuring using a reliably annotated corpus</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We use a reliably annotated corpus to compare metrics of coherence based on Centering Theory with respect to their potential usefulness for text structuring in natural language generation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Previous corpus-based evaluations of the coherence of text according to Centering did not compare the coherence of the chosen text structure with that of the possible alternatives. A corpus-based methodology is presented which distinguishes between Centering-based metrics taking these alternatives into account, and represents therefore a more appropriate way to evaluate Centering from a text structuring perspective.</Paragraph>
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