Reproducing a comparison of hedged and non-hedged NLG texts

This repository contains supporting materials for reproduction of the experiment comparing hedged and non-hedged NLG texts. The initall experiment was ran in 2007 and is described in this paper: A Comparison of Hedged and Non-hedged NLG Texts. This reproduction experiment was done as part of the ReproHum 2021 shared task.

This repository contains the following items:

• README.md
• requirements.txt -- Python library dependencies.
• data/hedging_dataset.csv -- Anonymized hedging questionaire results CSV file.
• hedging-analysis.ipynb

Instructions

1. Install Python dependencies using pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Using your preferred Juypter Notebook client run the notebook hedging-analysis.ipynb.