Topicalisation

Chinese learners of English often place the topic of a sentence at the initial position and then use a pronoun such as “it” to refer back to the topic. This type of sentences are grammatically incorrect in English. See examples below.


Examples of topicalised sentences

For entity coherence-based ordering of a sentence, it is converted to entity vectors before being multiplied by an entity-only similarity matrix.

Given all the above research on text summarization, it is not complete without evaluation of the output for content/informativeness and coherence/readability or their combination (Dang and Owczarzak, 2008).

Following Marcu’s (1997) basic idea, he claims VT can be used to summarize a given unit or sub-tree of a text.

Academically-appropriate equivalent

In terms of/with reference to entity coherence-based orderings, sentences are converted to entity vectors before being multiplied by an entity-only similarity matrix.

Given all the above, the research on text summarization is not complete without evaluating the output for content/informativeness and coherence/readability or their combination (Dang and Owczarzak, 2008).

Following Marcu's (1997) suggestion, VT can be used to summarize a given unit or sub-tree of a text.

 

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Example 1, “it” is an unclear reference which is replaced by ‘sentences” to clarify what is being referred to.

Example 2, “it ” is unclear and the use of “the research on text summarisation” clarifies the ambiguity.

In Example 3, “he” is used as a subject when one (Marcu) already exists and is hence redundant.