"What is on your mind?" Automated Scoring of Mindreading in Childhood and Early Adolescence

In this paper we present the first work on the automated scoring of\nmindreading ability in middle childhood and early adolescence. We create\nMIND-CA, a new corpus of 11,311 question-answer pairs in English from 1,066\nchildren aged 7 to 14. We perform machine learning experiments and carry out\nextensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation. We obtain promising results,\ndemonstrating the applicability of state-of-the-art NLP solutions to a new\ndomain and task.\n