The proposed multilevel framework of discourse comprehension includes the surface code,
the textbase, the situation model, the genre and rhetorical structure, and the pragmatic …

Whether computational algorithms such as latent semantic analysis (LSA) can both extract
meaning from language and advance theories of human cognition has become a topic of …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

The main purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the approach to lexical
diversity assessment known as the measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD). The index for …

In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is
computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that …

The Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis is the authoritative reference for the theory
behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze …

This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that
analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often …

A reliable index of lexical diversity (LD) has remained stubbornly elusive for over 60 years.
Meanwhile, researchers in fields as varied as stylistics, neuropathology, language …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of how lexical differences related
to cohesion and connectionist models can distinguish first language (L1) writers of English …

This article reports on a study that comparatively investigated the differences and similarities
in the (incorrect) use of cohesive devices by second-year and fourth-year undergraduate …