2025
Measuring Contextual Informativeness in Child-Directed Text
Maria R. Valentini, Téa Y. Wright, Ali Marashian, Jennifer M. Ellis, Eliana Colunga, Katharina von der Wense
COLING 2025main
To address an important gap in creating children’s stories for vocabulary enrichment, we investigate the automatic evaluation of how well stories convey the semantics of target vocabulary words, a task with substantial implications for generating educational content. We motivate this task, which we…