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Automated evaluation of text and discourse with Coh-Metrix /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McNamara, Danielle S. (Author), Graesser, Arthur C. (Author), McCarthy, Philip M., 1967- (Author), Cai, Zhiqiang, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis > Data processing.
Cognition > Data processing.
Psycholinguistics.
Cognitive science.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Computational linguistics.
Table of Contents:
  • Coh-metrix: the theoretical, technological, and empirical foundations
  • What is text and why analyze it?
  • The importance of text cohesion
  • The science and technology that led to coh-metrix
  • Coh-metrix measures
  • Coh-metrix measures of text readability and easability
  • Using coh-metrix measures: Studies of cohesion in text and writing
  • A beginner's guide to writing Coh-metrix research
  • The strategy: moves, frozen expressions, and the evaluator pitch
  • The introduction
  • The corpus
  • The tool
  • The results
  • The discussion.